“Talk of the "imperial decay" of your invalid port. "Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession."”

—  Stephen Potter

One-Upmanship (1952) p. 143
On how to talk up a faded Cockburn 1897.

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