Apéritif — French for a set of dentures

Lamenting the fact that we live in a rip-off Republic, Giovanni Morelli finds some ‘Exquisite’ and value packed summer wines from France in the discount supermarkets   ‘She gets to keep the chalet and the Rolls, I want the Montrachet.’ Forbes Magazine, 1996. Recently I attended the annual meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation — EBMT. As the meeting was held in Valencia (a beautiful city) in Spain, the only way to get back to Ireland was with a budget airline. Although the staff was very nice, when the air hostess asked me for change I…