Golden wine and blessing
Hall's book about living, working and travelling in Romania in the 1930s is warm and engaging, and he meets a...
Amber-coloured wines
There are some wonderful descriptions of Cretan wine - and its effects - in Zorba the Greek, but none of...
The backward bin
John Keats' letters are full of wry humour and playfulness, interwoven with a rage to live and frustration and despair...
It will do what it is supposed to do
Listening time: 7 minutes. This marvelous prose-poem comes from a travel book by the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski,...
Wine-drenched blubber
Swelter, the chef, is vast and rolling excess to Flay's ascetic skinniness, and here presents himself in a stupor. The...
On dry humour
This evokes oak paneled rooms in ancient colleges, and the quiet clinking of glasses interspersed with the odd guffaw.
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Fine with wine
Gideon is one of a group of lively friends of Durrell during a wonderful two year stretch when the Brits...
Wine and poetry
Wine as a perfect metaphor for poetry, with the same nature, alchemy and effects. Both can make you heady, or...
Wine’s wonderland
The Romans, using an old Greek word, called southern Italy Oenotria, the land of wine; the Greek word draws attention...
A smile like wine
A beautiful use of wine to describe the effect of a smile on a man who loves. It comes at...
Wine after washing
A libation to Athene in thanks for her beneficence. But first, a bath and a meal. And then that lovely...
A fine wine
What a wonderful scene, a simple lunch washed down with a local wine the colour of molten amber, and intriguingly,...
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