Sherry

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A short sample from Raymond Postgate's 'The Plain Man's Guide to Wine'

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English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

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Sherry is the best drink before a meal. It has no disadvantage, except for a small number of people with whom it genuinely disagrees, and of these, about a third have only tried bad or doctored sherry. It has no superior except for grand occasions. A glass of cool and dry champagne, it has no equal, although the memory halts for a moment. Over a dry Madeira Boston businessmen, I am told of the last century used to offer callers. About 11 in the morning, a glass of dry madeira and a biscuit. It must have been a very different and more amiable city, perhaps at that time, and not immediately before lunch or dinner. Madeira has an advantage over sherry, Salvator and Blando. The question is one to be settled by experiment and not by speculation.