Steven Spurrier Quotes in Bottle Shock (2008)

Jim Barrett: Why don't I like you?

Steven Spurrier: Because you think I'm an arsehole. And I'm not, really. I'm just British and, well... you're not.

Steven Spurrier: "Wine is sunlight, held together by water." The poetic wisdom of the Italian physicist, philosopher, and stargazer, Galileo Galilei. It all begins with the soil, the vine, the grape. The smell of the vineyard - like inhaling birth. It awakens some ancestral, some primordial... anyway, some deeply imprinted, and probably subconscious place in my soul.

Steven Spurrier: Great wine is great art, my friend. I am, in effect, a shepherd... whose mission is to offer the public another form of great art and to guide its appreciation thereof.

Maurice: Well, a shepherd... by definition, needs a flock. And a business, by necessity... needs customers.

Steven Spurrier: So, if I were to subscribe to that proviso would you be considered a customer?

Maurice: No. No, I would be considered... an enthusiastic... advocate.

Steven Spurrier: No offense, but I don't foresee the imminent cultivation of the Chicago vine.