Wine - a gentleman's game [antikvár]

Introduction"Le vin, M'sieur Meelair, c'est un . . . violon* un jeu de . . . comment l'exprimer en anglais . . . Wine ees a genteel-man's game."It was 1963, and Roland Thévenin, a prominent Burgundian winegrower, and I were sitting before the massive rustic fireplace in the kitchen of his lovely old Château de PuUgny-Montrachet. I had just returned to our rented home in Burgundy from a trip to Benmarl, my vineyard in America, and had brought back with me a few bottles of an interesting experimental cuvée of wine grown and bottled there. I had poured us both a sample and we had been carefully tasting for a long while. He lifted the glass in* Violon d'Ingrehobby.