LONDON’S CHANGE OF TASTE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 911, 22 August 1907, Page 21

LONDON’S CHANGE OF TASTE.

There has been an extraordinary falling off in the amount of wine drunk in the big London clubs, says a contemporary. Whisky and soda is the popular drink. It has completely ousted sherry, port, and even champagne. The little port now drunk is wine from the wood, of a light character, and the Carlton is -one of the few clubs where the members still ask for the old heavy bottle port, -drunk so much, fifteen or twenty years ago. About a month ago, the Navy and Military. Club, in, going over its stock of wine, found about twenty dozen bottles of / port which had laid in, the cellars s’nce the year 1876., No one in the club ■cgrpd 'foj, the wine or asked for it. The wine was priced as low as 8 dols. a •dozen. The club committee decided that

they had better sell the lot, and called an expert to taste the wine. The expert promptly bought the lot at 18 dols. a dozen, and sold it to a South African magnate at 25 dols. a dozen.