Karen MacNeil Quotes

United States, Author
March 27, 1954

Karen MacNeil is an American author, journalist, wine educator and consultant based in Napa Valley, and the only person to have won every major wine award in the English language. MacNeil is also the creator and chairman of the Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena, California.

Also known as Journalist, Educator, Consultant

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

Karen MacNeil
- Good
- Wine
- Dollars

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

Karen MacNeil
- Red
- Wine
- Happens
A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.

Karen MacNeil
- Ready
- Wait
- Longer