Some evenings, we took a picnic into the woods, with a bottle of white wine wrapped in a crisp tea towel, wineglasses in a cedarwood container, and a flask of coffee.

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We found out later that Arthur McKechnie mostly just got dressed up in his odd clothes and sat alone in a Chinese restaurant with a half bottle of white wine and a plate of crispy fried duck.

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You can serve them with a lightly dressed mache salad and a chilled bottle of crisp, dry white wine such as a French Chablis or a California Chardonnay.

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It was washed down with a bottle of Chaple Down Bacchus white wine from Kent, England (yes, England), for the novelty value that also unwittingly kept our meal's food miles down.

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No cigarettes or tobacco are on the list of needs, but a couple are permitted to buy four cans of lager and a bottle of red (keeps better than white) wine each week.

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In an area 129 square miles in size, white wine grapes are grown, the product of which will be fermented a second time inside the bottle to create the fizz that is the hallmark of champagne.

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