For others the problem is the weather - for us it is war

He [Michael Rayment] went and looked at the ancient vineyards Gaston Hochar had revived in 1932 when he sent his son Serge to be trained in Bordeaux as a wine maker. He remarked later: 'You cannot have a vintage every year: for others the problem is the weather - for us it is war.'

J. Arlott, 'Battlefield vintage [March 1984]', ed. D.R. Allen, Arlott on wine (1986), 187

If you are an Alsatian winemaker you change your nationality and lose your market every 25 years

Halfway up the picturesque cobbled main street of Riquewihr are the shop, offices, and cellar of the family Hugel who have made and sold wine there for twelve generations, since 1636. In their main cellar they have the oldest wine cask still in use in world; made of oak in 1719 and elaborately carved, it contains 8800 litres - a thousand dozen bottles - and was acquired by one of the family after the French Revolution. They are realists - 'if you are an Alsatian winemaker you change your nationality and lose your market every 25 years' - as well as idealists about their wine. 

J. Arlott, 'Wines of Alsace [April 1973]', ed. D.R. Allen, Arlott on wine (1986), 137 

English cricket contained no more than half a dozen left wingers

Some of the reaction to the prison sentences handed out to Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamar recalled John Arlott's suspicion that English cricket contained no more than half a dozen left wingers.

L. Booth, 'Notes by the editor', id. (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2012), 21