Notes on a Cellar-Book by Thomas Pinney, George Saintsbury

By Thomas Pinney, George Saintsbury

On account that its first book in 1920, George Saintsbury's vintage Notes on a Cellar-Book has remained one of many maximum tributes to drink and consuming within the literature of wine. a set of tasting notes, menus, and strong reviews, the paintings is full of anecdotes and memories of wines and spirits consumed—from the heights of Romanée-Conti to the straightforward pleasures of beer, turn, and mum. Thomas Pinney brings this particular paintings alive for modern audiences by way of delivering the keys to a whole figuring out of Notes on a Cellar-Book in a brand new variation that incorporates explanatory endnotes, an essay at the book's legacy, and extra articles on wine by way of Saintsbury.

Edited and annotated by means of Thomas Pinney

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Sandemans’ wine than of any other shipper’s. As I have not mentioned, the three “supernacular” ports of ’70, ’72, ’73 (p. 70) were, I believe, all of their shipping, and the only relic of my ancient cellar (stored in safe custody, I hope, but when to be drunk I know not) is a jeroboam of their ’81, twice (see p. 65) rescued from dispersion. • 40 / notes on a cellar-book flasks of less magnificent dimensions the wine came to my aid again and again. • • So gentle and gracious are the compliments that pass between the folk of the meyny of the God!

Several good persons, again, who have travelled have remonstrated with me on injustice to wines of Touraine and its neighbourhood. I ought to have said that I have never drunk them in France, thus giving them the direct (I intended an indirect) benefit of my remarks elsewhere on wines that perhaps do not travel well. As to the more serious part of the booklet, the refusal or delay of any but negligible Pussyfoot reply prevents rejoinder. I will note to third edition / 41 only mention one curious anecdote* buttressing my remarks on the impudence of the “moderate drinking shortens life” argument.

All fanatics and all faddists are dishonest. G. is only the exaltation to a blasphemous superlative of their invariable and indeed constitutive habit of mind. But it is a question whether the most Jesuitical Jesuit of the most heated Protestant imagination has ever outdone a thorough-going temperance advocate in the endless dodgings and windings, suppressions and suggestions of his method. , are really working for prohibition itself by steps and degrees. Except “Conscientious Objection” there was nothing more disgusting in the last five years than the duplicity of the cries, “Oh!

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