1939 The Gentleman's Companion volume II Beeing an Exotic Drinking Book

THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK room temperature if claret; cellar temperature if Burgundy; Spanish dry red wine, or Chianti. WITH DESSERT or FRUIT ... A good glass of cool Sauterne, well– chilled champagne; or the same white wine as at the start. A SIMPLE YET PLEASANTLY EFFECTIVE EUROPEAN SEQUENCE No. III, to GRATIFY a PARTICULAR AMATEUR GouRMET WITH HORS d'OEUVRE ... Pale dry sherry and bitters. Vermouth or Dubonnet, or Amer Picon; room temperature. WITH OYSTERS or SEAFOOD COCKTAIL ... A good Chablis, WITH FISH ... Still white Montrachet Burgundy, chilled. WITH ENTREE . . . Light Bordeaux claret, room temperature. WITH GAME ... Champagne of good vintage year, chilled well. WITH ROAST ... Red Burgundy, or Chateau bottled claret; former cellar temperature, latter _room temperature. WITH DESSERT or PASTRY ... A sound Madeira, room tem- perature. WITH CHEESE . . . Port of a good year, room temperature. FRUIT ... Tokay, or Malaga, room temperature. COFFEE ... Champagne fine, green Chartreuse, Drambuie, room temperature. In this latter list the service of white Burgundy, of a good year, in– stead of the usual white Bordeaux, brands any host as being gentle– man and scholar, and deucedly stout fellow as well. . . . It is a touch which some true amateur is bound to remark, and one quiet word of praise on our Montrachet is worth all the parrot-like praise of casual champagne, from a multitude. . . . Chilean Rhine type Undurraga we discovered four years ago on a Grace Line boat on a Panama trip. It is as fine as most Rhines, and greatly approved by connoisseurs, we now find. Comes in a cute squatty bottle. A SPECIAL OCCASION SEQUENCE No. IV, & Goon ENOUGH for RoYALTY WITH HORS d'OEUVRE GENERALLY Be sure and don't • 1 99 • vintage Rhine, or Chilean White Undu"aga, chilled. WITH SOUP . . . Old dry sherry, room temperature.