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Best Creme de Cbuttis Also, other good mixed drinks with wine Yes, there is a whole world of punches and other wine drinks, various countries have traditions like this. Some of them were more popular in past times and have become somewhat forgotten. If I remember right, when Brillat-Savarin was exiled from France during the Terror of the 1790s he spent some years in the US and returned with certain new-world food enthusiasms. This produced the famous remark "Je suis un Dindonophile." Besides turkeys, he picked up a taste for wine-based punches, popular at the time. A rich British tradition of wine-based drinks is reviewed, lovingly and anecdotally, by George Saintsbury in Notes on a Cellar-Book which is also the prototype wine-enthusiast book in English and well worth getting for anyone interested in wine, or even beer or spirits (the subject matter includes, but is not limited to, wine). It has been re-issued frequently for 85 years with very slight changes and is easily available on the used market from online booksellers. It is a much better reference for this subject than the modern mixed-drink guides that I have seen, which carry only a residue of the broad wine-drinks tradition. (In my opinion this material is wholly appropriate for a wines newsgroup not just because the inquiry was about wine drinks but because of the venerable traditions it touches on. Subjects like highly marketed university fad chickentails and the multi-layer pousse-café normally appear in the same newsgroup they've appeared since 1986, rec.food.drink.) Cheers -- Max
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