| Wine is such a lovely drink, is it not? I have not | | | | Anyway, I have a few tips on wine and wine |
| found a situation of relaxation after work that | | | | bottles, which I hope will help you enjoy drinking |
| could not be enhanced by a glass of wine. Wine | | | | wine - one of life's great pleasures. |
| as a drink is so versatile. There is one type or | | | | Waste Not, Want Not: how do you keep the fizz |
| another for every occasion. Think of a wedding, | | | | in a half-empty bottle of champagne or sparkling |
| and you think of champagne; think of a fiftieth | | | | wine, if you do not have a stopper to hand, |
| anniversary, and you think of champagne, do you | | | | because you will never get the cork back in? |
| not? Well, similarly, to many people, dinner means | | | | Hang a teaspoon upside down in the bottle's neck. |
| red wine (usually) and a summer evening in the | | | | It will keep your champagne wine sparkling for |
| garden calls for a glass of chilled white wine. | | | | about two more days in the fridge, but do not |
| Beer is all right in its place, but it is too filling to | | | | ask why it works, because I do not know. |
| accompany a big dinner. it has to be wine. And | | | | The Hot Water Treatment: if the cork in a bottle |
| after a big dinner, what do people drink? A pint of | | | | of wine just will not budge and you are worried |
| best beer? Not on your nellie! A glass of port or a | | | | about it breaking up, rotate the bottle neck under |
| brandy is just right. Drinking wine used to be | | | | the hot water tap for sixty seconds or so. The |
| subject to such snobbery, especially in the UK, | | | | glass will expand slightly and the cork will come |
| probably because we did not grow it ourselves | | | | out easily. I have not found this technique to spoil |
| and so the few who knew it from foreign | | | | any type of wine ever, even the most delicate |
| holidays wanted to mystify their privileged | | | | white Burgundy, but to make sure you could |
| knowledge. | | | | always try the first glass yourself. |