Cork-puller Extraordinaire Gifts

'A little flinty with a blackcurrent boguet, medium tannin, a slight hint of the sea, with merlot overtones and an after taste that becomes okaey with a hint of liquorice...'

The Games Man: Fishing is his sole form of exercise - but he considers it bad form to move more than his wrist when casting.

"Where's the business end of this thing?"

'Plastic corks, then screw caps; when they come out with a flip-n-sip Chateau Petrus I'm hanging up my tastevin.'

He can identify a fly taken by a trout at fifty yards range.

Fishing line going in to water and then dropping down from sky at top of panel.

A smiling cyclist

Toothless Rocker, "Oi, play the guitar with your own teeth !"

"Can you recommend a wine that would compliment a divorce?"

The Games Man: He spends many hours studying minute aquatic flies...which his trout very rarely eat.

"In our house the four major food groups are Bordeaux, Merlot, Chardonnay and Champagne."

true love.

"I'll have to put you on hold. I have a bite on the other line."

'I've written six books on wine; owned my own winery and taught a wine class for two years. My next goal is to taste some.'

When fish are on the feed - there is nothing quite like the suppressed excitement of tackling up...

An Excellent Nose for Wine.

'You are doing it wrong.'

Red Wine

"I've tried that one; it's a blend of 74 different red grapes - including two of the plastic decorative type."

Wino Appreciation Group

"When a wine rates over ninety, this is not alcoholism."

'They said before they start biting do we practice catch and release?'

'There's over 500,000 different wines? Bernie, we've got work to do!'

I see you caught the fish, but the boat got away!

"I've joined a wine-lovers club. . . so far there are only three members."

"You're right, Son. This movie did have a great cast."

Driver at Grand Prix shooting another driver with the cork from champagne

Houston gets serious about cleaning up space junk

Fishing off Brighton - 'Oh yes! it's very easy to say 'catch hold of him!''

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

'Who took the cork out of my lunch?'

"I'm burned out on fetching. I'm thinking of changing careers."

'Steroids.'

'Move? Are you kidding? With the wines the guy next door collects?'

There are more things to life than fishing...but I ingore them.