Daily Dialogue —April 30, 2019

Uncle Henry Skinner: [Bringing out two bottles of wine] I thought, as it’s your last night here, it only appropriate that we open something extra special.
Young Max: [Pointing to one of the bottles] Bandol.
Uncle Henry Skinner: Excellent choice. Tempier Bandol, 1969, the kind of wine that’ll pickle even the toughest of men. I once saw a Castilian prizefighter collapse in a heap after drinking just a single glass. Perhaps my knee landing squarely in his testicles may have been partly to blame… What was I talking about before?
Young Max: You said the importance of a good blue suit can never be overstated.
Uncle Henry Skinner: Quite right. A blue suit is the most versatile of accoutrements. More important than the suit itself, is the man who fits it for you. Once you find a good tailor, you must never give his name away — not even under the threat of bodily harm.

— A Good Year (2006), screenplay by Marc Klein, novel by Peter Mayle

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Wine. Today’s suggestion by James Bryan.

Trivia: Director Ridley Scott came up with the basic story that author Peter Mayle wrote in the book on which this film’s based upon. When the book was published, Mayle’s ideas were actually very different from Scott’s original premise. Scott then decided to film the story as he envisioned it from the very beginning.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Elderly wisdom dispensed over a glass of wine. The fruit the vine does tend to bring out one’s sagacity.