Wine Cartoons

"What wine goes best with vodka?"

"Talk about heaven - eight francs to the buck and old Binky still a chiselled blonde."

The night they invented champagne.

"Not much - just flushing out my arteries."

"Haven't you ever seen California wine being made before?"

"What do you have in investment-grade reds?"

"More Château de Costco?"

"It's a full-bodied wine with hints of acrimony, partisanship, and moral outrage."

"We didn't have time to pick up a bottle of wine, but this is what we would have spent."

"Honestly, Paula, I don't know what I'd do without our daily keggers."

"Will you call me?"

"Citizen of the World, Wine Connoisseur, Husband. I may be spreading myself too thin."

"Sure, they drank it - but did they get it?"

"This brand has a clean balance sheet, a lively marketing plan with tasteful notes of originality, and a strong fiscal-year finish."

In the Guru District

"It's an easy-drinking water that evokes earthy wood with aromatic notes of brass."

Advanced course at the Wine Appreciation Institute in my house.

"It's a magic potion that makes everything you say interesting."

"My approach is nontraditional, but from a uniquely Western perspective."

"That'll be twenty even—ten for the wine and a ten-dollar tax on the hapless sweater."

"Ça suffit, good buddy!"

"I guess what I miss most is being drunk."

"That will be perfect. We have a lot to talk about."

"Let me guess. You had it up to here with the world of business, so you packed it all in and started your own winery."

"Listen up, everybody—Charles is going to fill us in about the Grenache grape."