WINE
April 2016
Why Baudelaire preferred the healing effects of wine to the despondency of hashish
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March 2016
The playwright Sheridan had a prodigious fondness for drink, even by the standards of his hard-drinking age
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January/February 2016
Drink, in Robert Louis Stevenson's works, both reveals and debases
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December 2015
Doctors throughout history have recommended wine for good health
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