“A winetaster carries his tasting equipment with him wherever he goes, but it is at home that it is most finely tuned.”

“Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.”

“Show me how you drink and I will tell you who you are.”

“As long as one remains curious, one makes progress; it is when you think you know everything that you are actually out of date.”

“Wine, today as yesterday and tomorrow, continues to symbolize dual communion: on the one hand with nature and the soil, through the mystery of plant growth and the miracle of fermentation, and on the other with man, who wanted wine and was able to make it by means of knowledge, hard work, patience, care and love; for nothing worthwhile is achieved without love.”

“There are few pleasures which loosen the tongue as much as that of sharing wine, glass in hand.”

“He who writes this book in which hate is not hidden was formerly a pacifist...For him no disillusionment was ever greater or more sudden. It struck him with such violence that he thought himself no longer the same man. And yet, as it seems to him that in this state of hatred his conscience becomes diminished, he dedicates these pages, with emotion, to the man he used to be.”