Maurice Healy's love letter to wine is a benchmark of mid-20th century wine literature. A fixture on the reading lists of Steven Spurrier and Michael Broadbent, its free-flowing style is also admired by the world's leading wine author Hugh Johnson - who admits to frequently imitating it. Healy, an Irish lawyer, was a polymath for whom politics, poetry, broadcasting and the law were mere sidelines to his affection for 'matters of the table', wine in particular. In Stay Me With Flagons (first published in 1940), he shares his cultural knowledge of the wines of Europe, recalling in often-humorous detail the bottles he encounters and the friends with whom he enjoys them. Claret and conversation go hand-in-hand. This frequently witty study of wine is as readable now as it was back in its post-war heyday. Book jacket.