O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son, For that I was his father Edward's son; That blood already, like the pelican, Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:

And how many guys zilched out? Two grillion, m'lud.

From South Africa’s stunningly beautiful winelands to “shedistas” making wine in California industrial parks, from ubiquitous California chardonnay to the obscure Sagrantino di Montefalco, he gives us straightforward but nicely written descriptions of how wine tastes and what it goes with.

In Classical Athens, there were six obols to one drachma.