The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.
As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1990 Blanc de Blancs Champagne - my favorite kind - and I plan on drinking it all by 2005.
Forget the cheap white wine: go to beef and gin!
I love Champagne and I love to drink it out of any kind of beautiful glass.
I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.
I'm a bit of a wine snob and like a glass of Chateaux Margaux '82 with a meal or to unwind.
But Champagne is not drinking.
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.
It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.
