Karen MacNeil Quotations

It is not true that there is a linear relationship between price and quality. A higher price doesn't mean its better. The higher you go in price, the quality differences get smaller.

There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.

Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.

You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the mature Judy Garland, or that a big voluptuous chardonnay is like Marilyn Monroe -round, bosomy - you can remember that chardonnay, If you say a wine is snappy and lively, like Robin Williams, that's very different than the Anthony Hopkins of wine - urbane, sophisticated, measured, considered.

One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.

People get it immediately. It's a fun way of remembering.

Wine is like music, ... If you're not listening, it doesn't matter what's playing on the stereo.

A wine steward's job is to know about their list. It makes no sense not to take advantage of that expertise.

A wine steward's job is to know about their list, ... It makes no sense not to take advantage of that expertise.