"Columbo" Any Old Port in a Storm (TV Episode 1973) Poster

(TV Series)

(1973)

Donald Pleasence: Adrian Carsini

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Quotes 

  • Adrian Carsini : May our enemies never be as happy as we are at this moment.

  • Karen Fielding : Do we really need it, Mr. Carsini?

    Adrian Carsini : Nobody really needs a $5000 bottle of wine, Karen. I just don't want anybody else to have it.

  • Adrian Carsini : I think you're really gonna like this wine. It's a...

    Columbo : Oh, don't tell me. Let me guess.

    [sips wine] 

    Columbo : Sensitive breeding. Rich bouquet. Strong vinosity. Well, it's a Burgundy; I'm just not sure whether it's a Pinot Noir or a Gamay.

  • Adrian Carsini : You're an Italian, aren't you?

    Columbo : Uh, yes, sir, on both sides.

    Adrian Carsini : Well, you should know about good wine. It goes with the heritage.

    Columbo : Well, I guess I kind of messed up in that department. I'm gonna tell ya somethin' else - uh, I'm probably the only Italian in the world who can't sing either.

  • Adrian Carsini : Titian would have gone mad trying to mix so beautiful a red. And he would have failed dismally in the attempt.

  • Adrian Carsini : IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG? EVERYTHING is WRONG! An EXCITING MEAL has been RUINED by the presence of this... This..LIQUID FILTH!

  • Adrian Carsini : I guess, uh, freedom is purely relative.

  • Columbo : [Become dizzy after standing up]  Oh, boy!

    Adrian Carsini : You all right?

    Columbo : I didn't realize I drank that much. Whatta ya call that stuff?

    Adrian Carsini : Cabernet sauvignon.

    Columbo : I usually don't drink anything I can't pronounce, but I can see I got a lot to learn. First thing I gotta learn is how to hold my cabernet sauvignon.

  • Adrian Carsini : The sixty-nine-cents-a-gallon Marino Brothers? They don't make wine! They don't even make good mouthwash!

  • Adrian Carsini : Our father was a good man, a good Italian; he provided the wine. My mother was English; she provided the breeding. Your mother, on the other hand, appears to have been responsible for all the courser sides of your nature.

  • Adrian Carsini : This is dreadful. Don't you realize that a great wine is like a great work of art? It has to be nurtured, it has to be taken care of. You have subjected this port to a temperature in excess of 150 degrees. Such disdain can not and must not be tolerated!

  • Adrian Carsini : [to Karen]  I dislike sending telegrams, or receiving them. There's something about a telegram that makes one feel that some kind of tragedy has occurred.

  • Adrian Carsini : Why were you assigned to the case? I mean, you're-you're in homicide, aren't you?

    Columbo : I just go where they tell me to, sir.

    Adrian Carsini : Well, doesn't look right to me. It looks like they, uh... they suspect someone of, uh, foul play.

    Columbo : Well, maybe they do, sir, but you certainly don't have anything to worry about. You were three thousand miles away at the time of his death, right?

    Adrian Carsini : Right.

  • Adrian Carsini : You've learned very well, Lieutenant.

    Columbo : That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.

  • Adrian Carsini : Didn't your family ever drink wines at home?

    Columbo : I tell you, the closest we ever came to it was my father's job during prohibition.

    Adrian Carsini : Bootlegger?

    Columbo : No, he was a tail gunner on a beer truck.

  • Adrian Carsini : Do you think I'm gonna sit by and let some muscle-bound hedonist throw me out of what is rightfully mine?

    Enrico Guiseppe Carsini : [laughing]  Hey, come on. Don't worry. You'll be taken care of. I'm sure the Marino Brothers will let you lick the labels of their new carbonated rosé.

  • Adrian Carsini : Would you care for a sip of the wine that made Carsini famous?

    Enrico Guiseppe Carsini : I'd rather have some wine that made Carsini rich.

  • Columbo : I thought wine was just to drink. Today I found out it's also an investment. Some bottles of wine sell for $100, can you believe that?

    Adrian Carsini : That's a fair medium. I have bought bottles of wine that cost, oh, $5,000.

    Columbo : $5,000 for a bottle of wine? You know, my father never made $5,000 in a year! Can you imagine drinking a year's salary in one night?

  • Adrian Carsini : I'm afraid I don't know very much about motor-cars, Lieutenant. My life begins, and ends, with wine.

  • Adrian Carsini : Good breeding. Interesting aftertaste. But they left the skins in too long. I'd say ... imported, of course. Vintage '69. No subtlety. Probably a Chateau Verite.

    Karen Fielding : That's incredible. Utterly fantastic. That's exactly what it is. How in the world did you do it?

    Adrian Carsini : Simplicity itself. While the rest of you were savoring the delicate bouquet, I was peeking at the label.

  • Adrian Carsini : One mistake now could be disaster.

  • Adrian Carsini : My life begins and ends with wine.

  • Adrian Carsini : You really are a sly one, Lieutenant.

  • Adrian Carsini : Quite a little iron maiden, that lady.

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