有些人借酒消愁，而有些人以酒勵志。對后者而言，酒就能啟發人確定人生目標，激發向上拼搏的動力。本著這一精神，以下整理了葡萄酒世界里十條最鼓舞人心的名言，與君共勉。
1、There’s something involved in this that’s greater than we are. You can break it down to science and yeasts, but there’s something magical. Once you’ve experienced it, there’s nothing else you want to do. The glamour part has nothing to do with it. It’s that hard part. It’s spending time in the vineyards. It’s spending time with your hands, creating. It’s working really hard at something that you love. — Hardy Wallace, winemaker, Dirty and Rowdy Family Winery
葡萄酒中包含的某些東西比我們本身的存在要更偉大。盡管你可以把葡萄酒當做是科學和酵母創造出來的物質，它仍然具有某種魔力。一旦你品嘗過葡萄酒，就再也沒有別的什么事情讓你想去做了。這不并不是由于葡萄酒的迷人之美，而是因為它背后承載的艱辛。是那些花費在葡萄園里的時間，是一點一滴的親手創造，是因為熱愛而付出的辛勤耕耘。——哈迪 華萊士，Dirty and Rowdy家族酒莊釀酒師
2、The elevation is so high, no one’s grown grapes there before. The wind from Antarctica is so cold. The soil is rather difficult. All the elements are against you. But it was the dream. You need one of those things. You need to think you’re ten foot tall and bullet proof. You need to think nothing can go wrong. — Erica Crawford, Loveblock wines of New Zealand
這里的海拔非常高，在此之前從沒有人在這里種過葡萄。而且來自南極洲的冷風也不利于葡萄生長，土壤條件惡劣。所有的自然因素都不利于釀酒。然而，這就是夢想。為了實現這個夢想，你需要把自己想象成一個10英尺高的巨人，并且無堅不摧。你必須意志堅定，沒有什么不能克服。——埃里卡 克勞福德，新西蘭Loveblock酒業
3、I think people are hungry for authenticity, as it pertains to wine or clothing or experience. They want authenticity. I believe in my heart that the natural course of evolution is a movement away from the industrial experience toward something that’s more authentic. – Matt Licklider, co-owner of LIOCO Winery
我認為人們對“真實性”有一種渴求，無論是對于葡萄酒還是服裝，亦或是人生經歷。人們需要“真實性”。我內心堅信，自然進程的演變是與工業實踐分離的，它趨向于某種更真實的存在。——馬特 力克里德 LIOCO酒莊共有人
4、I would stay [in the newsroom] until 3 am “in case something happened.” But I mostly had nothing to do between 1 and 3 am so I used that time to write. And I chose to write about food and wine. Along the way I carved out a role for myself. – Eric Asimov, wine writer for the New York Times
以防突然事件的發生，我通常會在編輯部待到凌晨3點鐘。但大部分時候，從凌晨1點到3點之間我都無事可做，于是我開始利用這段時間寫作。我選擇了關于美食與美酒的主題來寫，也是在這一過程里，我為自己塑造了一個身份。——埃里克 阿斯莫夫，《紐約時報》葡萄酒作家
5、I love it when someone comes in who’s self-conscious about loving sweet wine. I love turning them on to an amazing wine that surprises them, for what it is and because they like it. They come in with the perspective that they’re not sophisticated about sweet wines, yet they’ll enjoy one of the more sophisticated wines on earth. — Maximilian Kast, Wine Director at Fearrington Village in Pittsboro, North Carolina
我喜歡看到有人出于本能的熱愛甜葡萄酒。由于這份熱愛，我樂意為他們展示一款令人驚艷的美酒，給他們驚喜。他們最開始喜歡甜葡萄酒的原因并不是因為它復雜，然而他們卻懂得享受這個地球上最復雜的酒之一。——麥斯米蘭 卡斯特，Fearrington Village酒水總監
6、I don’t know why but I love this kind of project, when it’s a little difficult and when you have a history. The beginning of the story of viticulture was in the Middle East, and it was a different generation than the science and logistics of today. My passion is to go into the past to make wine. Wine is something cultural, not only something to drink. I always try to find the identity of the place. – Stephane Derenoncourt, international wine consultant to Château Marsyas in Lebanon and Château Bargylus in Syria among many others.
盡管我不知道為何，但我熱愛釀酒這個有些艱難并且具有悠久歷史的工程。葡萄酒栽培最早起源于中東，一個與今天的葡萄酒科學和流通相去甚遠的時代。我熱衷于從古時的釀酒傳統尋找方法并繼承。葡萄酒不僅僅是一種飲料，更是一種文化。我總試圖找到每一個葡萄酒產地與眾不同的地方。——斯蒂芬 德勒農古，國際葡萄酒顧問
7、We don’t do ratings because they’re the opposite of empowerment. Ratings say that you can’t trust your own palate. — Alan Kropf, founder of Mutineer magazine
我們不對葡萄酒評分，因為這是與自我許可相違背的。“評分”好比在告訴你，“你不能相信自己的舌頭。”——艾倫 克洛普弗，Mutineer雜志創辦人
8、Wine is this spot between the center of the earth and the center of the universe, and there is something that’s happening with or without us. We just happen to be a gentle participant, or just an observer. — Hardy Wallace, winemaker, Dirty and Rowdy Family Winery
葡萄酒是地球中心與宇宙中心之間的一個連接點，在這之間發生的事，我們或許親身經歷，或許并未可知。我們只是謙遜的參與扎爾，與旁觀者。——哈迪 華萊士，Dirty and Rowdy家族酒莊釀酒師
9、Our goal is to inject an element of novelty and renewal into channels that have remained unmodified for ages. – Stevie Kim, Managing Director at VinItaly International. Kim brings an outsider’s freshness to wine marketing with disruptive ideas like HACK WINE, a 24-hour non-stop marathon that will take place on March 1 and 2.
我們的目標是往亙古不變的 渠道中注入新穎而變革的力量。——史蒂維 金，VinItaly International總經理
10、There is constantly somebody who’s making something, whether it’s music or art or wine, that pushes the edges of what was previously thought possible. And in doing that, if the person makes something that’s fundamentally good, it drives the parameters of what is good and makes them a little bit wider. – Len Rothenberg, owner, Federal Wine & Spirits in Boston
無論是在音樂、藝術還是葡萄酒的領域，古往今來，不斷的有人付出和創造，打破固有的疆界。人們在嘗試的過程中，發現的根本上好的東西保留下來并加以推廣，從而推動行業進步。——倫恩 羅滕貝格，波士頓Federal Wine & Spirits in Boston。