It may also be why spicy food can taste spicier if you're drinking warm booze, and why that chilled drink is so satisfying.
We ate it at the top of a hill by the bay, drinking chilled rosé with vines hanging around us.
And here he was, sitting before me in a suite at the Holland Park Hotel, smoking strong French cigarettes and drinking chilled water.
Located along the Seine, in the previously socially remote 13th Arrondissement, Wanderlust features a sprawling terrace perfect for recreational activities like drinking chilled rosé and people watching from behind expensive sunglasses.
'Let me have 800 words.' I knew Sylvian, who was then 33, preferred to be interviewed in smart west London hotels, where he would be encountered smoking strong French cigarettes and drinking chilled water.
The artist, in his sleek blazer and ascot, a cigarette puffing away in its holder, would rattle off dozens of pen-and-ink sketches, working sight unseen and strictly from verbal descriptions, while John Fairchild and I sat there, pumping the buyers and drinking chilled Beaujolais and nibbling roast chicken and frites.
Drinking chilled beer began with the development of artificial refrigeration and by the 1870s, was spread in those countries that concentrated on brewing pale lager.
"Well, that was cold," he says casually as if drinking a chilled can of coke.
When it's very nice and chilled, it's like drinking a beer.
Wisely, she perks up, charming with a gorgeous smile and a persuasive array of chilled fare ("Stay Ready," "Drinking and Driving") meant to be shared by couples in and out of love.
