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Time, gentlemen.

Well, I think we all knew it was coming: time to bring a close to Quaffle. It’s not as gloomy as draining the bottle, though — I’ve decided that wine, like food and cookery, is important and beautiful enough that I’m going to incorporate it more into the main blog, The Cutlery Drawer.  I just [...]

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Barkeep, refill my glass!

I have been thinking thinking thinking thinking about wine and drinking and writing and drinking.  And then I had some more wine and did some more thinking. See, Quaffle is something of a fringe child of the spoonfully.com domain. I like writing about wine, but I suspect I am not a wine writer. I think of [...]

Sleepless nights

So, with one thing and another going on in my life lately, I have spent a lot of time thinking about my relationship with wine.  I love wine.  Absolutely love it.  Beer is refreshing, Guinness lovely, spirits fun, cocktails wicked: but wine standas alone.  It is my nectar, my tonic, my beloved.  Take a fun, [...]

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Quaffing and how it’s done

I realise now, after having this blog for a little while, that I have committed a greivous oversight in failing to address the blog’s eponym, the quaff. The quaff, as you can probably tell by its old-timey sounding name, is a traditional imbibing technique that has been honed over generations.  The key element of the [...]

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