Word: yquem
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...young London barrister had no intention of switching careers when he went back to Oxford, that day in 1912, to visit his old tutor. But the fellows of Brasenose College asked him to lunch. "It was a marvelous lunch," W.T.S. Stallybrass remembers, "with Château Yquem and green Chartreuse." When it was over, the fellows asked him to stay and join them. He said yes-if he could always dine that well...
Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, who has never touched tobacco but who as a youngster delighted the late Charles Anderson Dana by recognizing Cháteau Yquem by taste, made his first visit to one of Manhattan's 50,000 speakeasies, found in it material for a half-column description. Excerpts: ''It is one o'clock in the day and somewhat surprised you see every seat occupied, practically all of them by young girls, chatting with the bartenders, taking cocktails or 'absinthe drip,' if you know what that is.* Some experienced, with mucous membranes well seasoned...
Lawless, the newly-formed London Gourmets Club ate plovers' eggs at their second banquet, fortnight ago, washed this typical sportsman's delicacy down with Château d'Yquem 1870 from the cellars of Eugenie, late ill-fated Empress of the French. After the dinner Charles Stambois, secretary of the club explained that "our plovers' eggs were not illegal because they were a gift," an excuse which the royal comptroller showed last week to be invalid. Nevertheless the board of agriculture, lax, had not up to last week taken steps against the Gourmets club...
...obviously keen to plunge into the riddles of "Prosperity" and "Standardization," tall, snowy-haired Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith soon consented to answer several questions which are riddles to many a U. S. traveler in Europe. Questions such as: "Which are the rarest and finest wines?" "Should Châateau Yquem be iced, or Châateau Lafite warmed?" "Which wines ought one to drink with the soup, fish, roast, fowl?" "At a mixed dinner of ladies and gentlemen in a restaurant is it smart or vulgar to drink exclusively cocktails and Champagne...
...ateau Haut-Brion and finally in sublime Chateau Lafite, a wine possessing so grand a flavor and bouquet as to make mere Champagne an anticlimax. After recovering from the ecstacy of sniffing and sipping red Chateau Lafite. however, Mr. George Reeves-Smith likes to end with a white Chateau Yquem, "the sweetest, most wonderful of wines." "I never drink any of the wine when I test it," he continued. "That's what most people think is done, but if I swallowed it I couldn't taste its flavor. I look at the color, smell for bouquet, take...