num_pages: 193
description: A lighthearted account of one man's enjoyment of life in general but of wine in particular- if the general heading of wine may be allowed to cover not only the classic clarets and the great champagnes that Mr Ray has drunk in the appropriate company but also the beer in which defeat in Oxford college cuppers was drowned on nights with the rugger hearties and the vodka that warmed the cockles of a frustrated Moscow correspondent's heart as he walked through the snowbound streets to the ballet at the Bolshoi. Mr Ray has traveled widely and drunk adventurously from Clos des Pyramides in Egypt to eau de vie of holly-berries in Alsace and he has engaging stories to tell- among them those of the airplane brought down by a well-aimed vodka bottle and of the husband who did not dream of divorce until he was cuckolded against a bin of 1921 Yquem.
language: English
title: In a glass lightly
publisher: A. S. Barnes