Of Wines, George Saintsbury said, "when they were good they pleased my senses, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits to other people." Can a dictionary of Wines, to a proportionately lesser extent, do the same thing? We venture to hope that it can, at any rate, lead the way, perhaps inspiring a questing thirst whose gratification will make clear at once just what the genial English critic had in mind.

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