WINE
September 2012
The mercurial brat pack writer is at his heady best — and most revealing — in his collected works on wine
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July/August 2012
Bordeaux was more than a drink for Baudelaire. It served as a potion which could multiply individuality
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June 2012
Keats was clearly intoxicated by claret, which may explain why his poetry about wine is rather inaccurate
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May 2012
A master of drinking scenes, Shakespeare brilliantly articulates the ambivalence of wine — Cassio's devil and Iago's instrument — throughout Othello
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