Kermit Lynch Quotations

Too many of them (Languedoc producers) in my opinion have followed the fad and are trying to make inky black wines with too much oak,

Finesse to most Americans means light, ... But it doesn't mean that in France. It means harmony, balance, completeness.

I like natural wine. If a wine's too technical, I'm turned off.

With my palate, I love that perfume that keeps coming up,

Each time a vineyard is passed along to the kids, it has to be divided up, ... Nobody has a large enough plot to make a living.

It began in the '70s, when (French winemaking) parents started sending their son or daughter to enology school to learn about wine,

I noticed the kids came home talking about chemical equations and the father's scratching his head. I saw it so often -- the father would say, 'I'm an idiot, but my son is a genius. He knows about malolactic fermentation.' Sooner or later all these wines taste the same.

The tourists used to go down to Sancerre (in the Loire region) for the weekend, taste wines and buy for their cellar, ... Now they can't do that anymore. The cops are right outside the winery ... (Vintners) feel betrayed, these people who have devoted their lives to something they think is beautiful. Now they're told it's criminal.