That was Then, This is Now!

Joel Butler MW 3.26 6.30.2025

“That was the trouble with claret. When Humphrey brought forward this point, over our glasses of ‘73 Cognac (1873), at the Hotel des Trois Piliers, remarking that with a claret, whatever the label and whatever the year, you were disappointed nine times out of ten, we could not but own that he was right.

“And with Burgundy,”, he went on, “nine …