But with a few good friends, good wine, and good food, the reluctant hero opened up.
Happily making wine in California at Sine Qua Non winery, Harrison was invited by friends to move to Oregon and make wine.
There would be no company while I cooked, no friends sharing a glass of wine while they chopped the tomatoes for my pasta.
Above the capital, Tbilisi, a giant statue of Mother Georgia holds a sword to ward off enemies and a bowl of wine to welcome friends.
As he returned to the China Club for a last cup of rice wine, Chang and his friends seemed like genteel revolutionaries ready to take on the modern world.
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The urban dweller's solution: Make your own wine -- and get your friends and neighbors involved.
For our tasting we put 17 boxed wines to the test, inviting friends and neighbors (read: no formal wine judges) over to play critic for an evening.
Rates of smoking are relatively low, mid-day naps are the norm, the pace of life is slow and people socialise frequently with friends and family, drinking moderate amounts of wine.
But if Kokomo came on the radio at night when my friends and I were driving around, three or four wine coolers deep, we'd never turn the dial and might even turn up the volume because we loved to hate it.
They arrived with a car full of provisions but found their cliffside cabin so stylish and well stocked that they invited friends over and prepared a dinner for eight, complete with wine, tablecloth and silverware (all provided).
Whether it is from a cellar or a temperature-controlled wine cabinet, the joy of pulling out a bottle and savoring it with friends over a meal, as its flavors subtly transform in the glass, is one of the most pleasing sensory experiences imaginable.
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I'd invited some practicing and nonpracticing Jewish friends to participate in the tasting none of whom seemed to have a particularly bright view of kosher wine.
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