The beautiful game and glass

As the World Cup kicks off, Giovanni Morelli was fascinated to read of Sir Alex Ferguson's wine sale. However, it won’t be the footie — or indeed the new range of anti-wrinkle creams — that will be occupying his mind this summer in Tuscany. ‘The vine... is generally overlook’d both by botanists and physicians; and its juice one of the noblest medicines in nature’.  — Dr Peter Shaw, 1724. I don’t follow football and I have no idea who manages Manchester United FC, but I have met Sir Alex Ferguson. Yes, it was many years ago at a fundraiser organised by…