(THE BUSINESS TIMES) The practice of the after-dinner drink - long-cherished by the English gentry and enshrined by the practice of gentlemen retiring to the library while ladies repaired to the parlour - has sadly been rather neglected, to our loss.
The after-dinner drink was, by and large, port - from non-vintage to venerable vintage.
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