The tourists used to go down to Sancerre (in the Loire region) for the weekend, taste wines and buy for their cellar, … Now they can’t do that anymore. The cops are right outside the...

I like natural wine. If a wine’s too technical, I’m turned off.

Too many of them (Languedoc producers) in my opinion have followed the fad and are trying to make inky black wines with too much oak,

It began in the ’70s, when (French winemaking) parents started sending their son or daughter to enology school to learn about wine,

Finesse to most Americans means light, … But it doesn’t mean that in France. It means harmony, balance, completeness.

I noticed the kids came home talking about chemical equations and the father’s scratching his head. I saw it so often — the father would say, ‘I’m an idiot, but my son is a genius....

Each time a vineyard is passed along to the kids, it has to be divided up, … Nobody has a large enough plot to make a living.