Another nail

Good Lord, it's finally happened. Next stop, the apocalypse.

A Solution Without a Problem

If you feel it to be a prudent investment to drop €5000 for this handmade gimballed champagne holder for your Perrier-Jouët Grand Brut 1996, then you're not drinking it fast enough.

In Vino Veritas

California's best Chardonnay has been selected and the winner is Charles Shaw's vintage, which retails for $2.99.

Not surprisingly, it is also the house wine of Chez Szondy-- for obvious reasons.

Warning: This Government Is Bad For Your Liberty

Boris Johnson on the asinine government proposal to slap every bottle of plonk with a warning label:

For well over 45 centuries the human race has been squeezing grapes and fermenting the juice into anything between seven and 15 per cent alcohol, and so producing the ecstatic drink that has been as sacred to every pagan religion as it is to Christianity.

As a great French historian has pointed out, the vineyards of France are perhaps the single greatest cultural legacy of the Roman empire, and it is now more than two millennia since people in Britain first became aware of the intoxicating powers of wine.

In all that time, no government in history has yet thought the people so moronic that they needed to be told, on the bottle, that wine could go to your head.

But then, the British people didn't have such enlightened masters lording over them as now.