Wine in the U.S. in general is expensive. It’s also true of California. In many cases you can get an old world version for much less. That’s a somewhat intractable problem…It’s just expensive to do business in the United States. Karen MacNeil More Quotes by Karen MacNeil More Quotes From Karen MacNeil 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. Karen MacNeil wine reading two 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. Karen MacNeil different wine robins Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red. Karen MacNeil red wine white A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer. Karen MacNeil wine bears waiting There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle. Karen MacNeil dollars bottles wine The good part is that there’s a lot of talent and ambition and some money now in Virginia, and none of those things were ever as true in the past as they are right now. Karen MacNeil lifestyle
