My grandparents owned an apple orchard when I was growing up - a lot of apples, cherries... now, actually, a lot of grapes, too, to be honest.

Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

My grandparents owned an apple orchard when I was growing up - a lot of apples, cherries... now, actually, a lot of grapes, too, to be honest.

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile.

The Helmand area used to be the breadbasket of Afghanistan. There was a time when a substantial number of the grapes we ate came from Afghanistan.

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

Many mainstream winemakers use indigenous yeasts rather than commercially grown ones to ferment their grapes - precisely what natural winemakers advocate.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.