1.   A certain level of fruit is needed for a wine to be rounded and flavourful.

2.   A dry white wine is perfect with any fish dish.

3.   A house wine is on offer, or you can bring your own.

4.   As a rule, French wines are more expensive than those from Eastern Europe.

5.   Dry white Gascogne wines are perfect examples of wines that must be drunk young.

6.   Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality.

7.   I stop playing the pipes before we leave the town as I appear to be missing out as far as the wine is concerned!

8.   If the wine is expensive, we can go halves.

9.   Market trends indicate that imported wines have been the main winner - Scotch Whisky the main loser.

10.   Red wine is only appropriate with red meat.