1.   Add garlic, mint, vinegar, salt and pepper to taste to cucumbers.

2.   Add the whiskey, a squeeze of lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste to the pan and deglaze.

3.   Even at its peak, it tastes to the uninitiated like something that probably should not be swallowed.

4.   I narrowed my tasting to a dozen brands of cheese puffs, both baked and fried.

5.   It tasted to me like a robust California zinfandel, and, like zinfandel, it has a higher alcohol content than most wines.

6.   It might sound like a hangover recipe, but to me it tastes like malted manna.

7.   Saying you are a fan of chardonnay, for example, is a signal to tailor your tasting to that varietal.

8.   To me they taste intensely of the sea.

9.   What really counts about a wine is how it tastes to you, not whether it impresses the people at the next table.