Sentence examples for wine set from inspiring English sources

"I'll have a glass of chardonnay," people will tell a bartender, then happily if unknowingly accept any white wine set before them.

Such Roman poets as Catullus, singing of his love's sparrow, and Horace, inviting friends to share his wine, set patterns in light poetry that were followed to the end of the 19th century.

From his bottomless briefcase, he brought out a bottle of wine, set two paper cups on a ledge and began to expound on his life's book, "Beneath the Underdog".

GEORGE ORWELL'S classic "Down and Out in Paris and London," with its seamy world of plongeurs, cheap hotels and rotgut wine, set a very low threshold for budget stays in Paris.

We have just been advised that the official togas for our Greek Olympic team have still not been woven, with only five weeks (Roman calendar) remaining, but that the hundred flagons of wine set out for the Gods of Haberdashery should speed things up.

That summer of '68, I was in a vast crowd in London's sunlit Hyde Park listening to Pink Floyd's free concert: One inch of love is one inch of shadow Love is the shadow that ripens the wine Set the controls for the heart of the sun!

But in Argentina it has found a home and become the country's all-important signature wine, setting Argentina apart from other New World producers.

Salizzada San Moise, 1345 San Marco, tel; +39 (0)41 296 0687, open every day This old-fashioned osteria is a fun, noisy rendezvous for local Venetians, where a glass of house wine sets you back only 80 cents.

The Trattoria L'Assaggio is a friendly seaman's haunt, and a fabulous fritto misto of squid, octopi, sardines, prawns and scallops, with a carafe of white wine, sets me back the grand total of €10.

We spent a pleasant hour over a glass of wine setting the airline to rights, leaving me in no doubt that he really cared about the things I was moaning about and was trying to improve them.

He was years ahead of his time in seeing sourcing as the key to good food (and wine), setting the day's menu by what was in the market, and being the first American chef to put together an all-vegetable tasting menu.