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" After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old baby girl from an island off the south coast of Korea called Cheju Island. "
Decision
Baby
Best
" Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pape by Baron Le Roy, proprietor of the renowned Chateau Fortia, Chateauneuf-du-Pape never developed a reputation for quality or achieved the prestige enjoyed by such regions as Burgundy and Bordeaux. "
Quality
Roots
Reputation
" As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1990 Blanc de Blancs Champagne - my favorite kind - and I plan on drinking it all by 2005. "
Great
Kind
Vintage
" As I've grown older, I've developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifying but that can also provide great satisfaction over several years. "
Great
Appreciation
Over
" At 66 years of age, I feel about 20. "
About
Age
Feel
" Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Most of the wines produced there were rustic, highly tannic and alcoholic, with little charm or finesse. "
Community
Back
Farming
" Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health. "
Health
Dangerous
Your
" Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale imitations of the originals. One exception is Australian Riesling, delicious, dry wines meant to be consumed in their first two years of life. "
Years
Meant To Be
Try
" I always said your best palate is your own, not mine. I'm a guidepost. "
Best
Always
Your
" I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage. "
Fruit
Believe
Responsibility
" If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best. "
Vineyard
System
Ever
" I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne. "
You
Young
Like
" I'm a common-sense kind of guy. "
Common-Sense
Guy
Kind
" I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy. "
Guy
Kind
" In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call 'authentic' or 'natural.' "
Natural
Wine
World
" I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a young, tannic red wine is something familiar to an Asian palate. "
Great
Love
Red
" It may seem hard to believe - unless you sit down and taste them - but some of the world's greatest sweet wines are made in the Rutherglen region of Victoria, Australia. "
Sweet
Australia
Believe
" It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence). "
Believe
World
Wine
" I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively. "
Always
Worth
Rule
" My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned. "
Waiting
Attention
Experience
" My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing. "
Sure
Nothing
Personal
" Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era. "
Hierarchy
Vintage
Short
" No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. "
Pleasures
Man
Sane
" No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify different levels of wine quality and provide the reader with one professional's judgment. "
Quality
Wine
Perfect
" Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing. "
Find
Life
Live
" Tawny ports have already spent 20 or 30 years in wood - it's not likely they're going to improve. On the other hand, they're not going to get any worse. "
Improve
Years
Worse
" The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. "
More
Different
Fair
" The best Chateauneuf-du-Papes are among the most natural expressions of grapes, place and vintage. Chateauneuf-du-Pape vineyards are farmed organically or biodynamically, and the region's abundant sunshine and frequent wind (called 'le mistral') practically preclude the need for treating the fields with herbicides or pesticides. "
Vintage
Wind
Place
" The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s. "
Over
Consultant
First
" The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope. "
Writing
California
Real
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