A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

Let things taste of what they are.

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

A poet’s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.