Jean-Pierre Alaux > Quotes

“The world is filled with moralizers who forget to sweep in front of their own doors.”
― Jean-Pierre Alaux, Treachery in Bordeaux

“Benjamin glanced at his eager driver. “The children’s author Roald Dahl said of Romanée-Conti: ‘Sense for me this perfume! Breathe this bouquet! Taste it! Drink it! But never try to describe it. It’s impossible to give an account of such delicacy with words!”
― Jean-Pierre Alaux, Red-Handed in Romanée-Conti

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
― Jean-Pierre Alaux, Red-Handed in Romanée-Conti

“John Keats said, ‘Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather, and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.’ That’s the best prescription for health I’ve ever read.”
― Jean-Pierre Alaux, Requiem in Yquem

“As Benjamin Franklin said, ‘Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.’ All of the above make friends.”
― Jean-Pierre Alaux, Red-Handed in Romanée-Conti

“and a cup of Nepalese tea, the one his tea-loving friend Gilles Brochard had sent him.”
― Jean-Pierre Alaux, The Winemaker Detective: An Omnibus

“Restaurants always seemed to be full of bored couples who enjoyed eavesdropping.”
― Jean-Pierre Alaux, The Winemaker Detective: An Omnibus

“We’re also men of the vine. ‘In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Jean-Pierre Alaux, Foul Play in Vouvray

“he maintained that the holy spirit descended on these hills to transform the grapes into wine for the angels.”
― Jean-Pierre Alaux, Requiem in Yquem

“At my age, I’m still not surrendering to boredom,” Brother Clément said. “I’m open to a surprise or two. Why settle for the predictable?”
― Jean-Pierre Alaux, The Winemaker Detective: An Omnibus