Comments on: Best Read Wine

By: Leanu

Leanu — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:49:17 +0000

I would tip my hat to the paper-back version of the Steve Martin vehicle “The Jerk” and pour “something fresh”. This year! No more old stuff!

By: Thomas Pellechia

Thomas Pellechia — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:14:16 +0000

I once did a dinner with foods mentioned in Patrick O’Brian novels in which he often mentioned Madeira. Each of the five courses was paired with a Madeira, from Rainwater to Malmsey.

By: Benito

Benito — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:32:39 +0000

And let us give a brief nod to all the assorted beverages and hangover cures featured in the works of P.G. Wodehouse.

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:45:37 +0000

I think our affinity for Fitzgerald and Hemingway demonstrates that we passed high school English.

I was going to go with For Whom the Bell Tolls and a Rioja Gran Reserva, but I had an online conversation over the weekend in which I advocated Hemingway, and that’s not something you want to do too often. So I backed off and opted for his little friend Scott.

I also considered cheap port and the opening of The Postman Always Rings Twice.

“They threw me off the hay truck about noon. I had swung on the night before, down at the border, and as soon as I got up there under the canvas, I went to sleep. I needed plenty of that, after three weeks in Tijuana, and I was still getting it when they pulled off to one side to let the engine cool. Then they saw a foot sticking out and threw me off. I tried some comical stuff, but all I got was a dead pan, so that gag was out. They gave me a cigarette, though, and I hiked down the road to find something to eat.”

By: Wine Curmudgeon

Wine Curmudgeon — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:58:08 +0000

Bubbly.. and the scene from The Sun Also Rises at toward the beginning…poor Jake

Damn, we’re literate, aren’t we, Tom?

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:46:52 +0000

I did a tasting at Christmas last year that was based on It’s a Wonderful Life. I had a wine that expressed each of the main characters: a sweet Prosecco for Mary; a nice, solid Cotes du Rhone for George; a big, tannic Cahors for Mr. Potter.

It was a nice idea and would have worked except that sitting at the table were the only 12 people in the world who hadn’t ever seen the movie. Seriously: what group of 12 Americans could you possibly put together where not a single one had any idea what It’s a Wonderful Life was all about?

By: Benito

Benito — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:27:18 +0000

A couple of years ago I did a post on calf’s liver served with a nice Amarone, a nod to the original line from the book The Silence of the Lambs. Some other things that I’ve tried purely because of literature:

- Pastis and Provençal rosé from any of the Peter Mayle books
- Vesper Lynd cocktail from the 007 books
- Amontillado via E.A. Poe
- Claret from the Rumpole mysteries