[Mad Dawg]

We were so High Church our noses bled . . . in fact we mentioned to the Deacon when we started attending a Catholic church that we ‘missed the consolation of the Sacrament’

I don't know why but that completely cracks me up.

As to wine, specified unadulterated grape wine, but something like a Tokay or other sweet wine was good because a sweet wine lasts longer once it's opened. Real Port, being fortified, ain't kosher.

Sipping a nice Cockburn as we speak ...

[AnAmericanMother]

I was being deliberately old-fashioned when I said it (being an absolute newbie I didn't want to sound too Episcopalian) and it certainly got a reaction. . . I must have sounded like a 75-year-old nun.

My husband got me a bottle of Cockburn '55 for my 40th birthday (in 1995). We had people lining up to beg a thimbleful . . . .

I've switched over to Taylor Fladgate for some reason.

"Once it's been opened, you know it won't keep,
Do have a bit, it will help you to sleep!
Oh, have some Madeira, my dear!
I have quite a small cask of it here . . . . "