Of wine and poetry
Here we have a poet and a vintner who connects the magic between wine and poetry. Wine can be poetic...
The most miserable existence
Deprivation on the Danube, as viewed by a newly arrived governor during the Roman Empire, posted to a wine-less, olive-free...
The stuff of wine
Harry Eyres is a poet and a vintner, and his book on Horace is a delight that will be reviewed...
Wine-tasting à l’aristocrat
One of the charms of Brideshead is the free run the two young men occasionally enjoy of this vast, rambling...
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...
Fine with wine
Gideon is one of a group of lively friends of Durrell during a wonderful two year stretch when the Brits...
A fine wine
What a wonderful scene, a simple lunch washed down with a local wine the colour of molten amber, and intriguingly,...
On illusory madness
A fine description of Mervyn Peake's balance between bounding imagination and taut writing, rounded off with a vintage metaphor.
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Wine and time
Having written an entire essay, if not a thesis, on this vital and universal issue, I am always in search...
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’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...
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