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Drink

How to drown your sorrows

20 July 2024

9:00 AM

20 July 2024

9:00 AM

Age. At the Spectator party last week, the editor asked me how long I had been attending the festivity. I could not remember whether it had been since the late 1970s or not until the early 1980s. But change is not always for the worse. During the 1980s, dearly beloved Bron Waugh was in charge of the wine.

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