Talking about the Red Wine Dialogues, who can forget the night Joseph Addison came round with a few copies of the Spectator?

Will Wimble and Beau Tibbs waited, as it were, in the wings, and Sir Roger de Coverly was staying at Treehouse Farm, trading genealogical claims and the occasional couplet with Alicia Baden-Baden.

Red Wine Dialogues? With a roster like that, to which you can add the names of such men as Seth Adams and Chuck Wooster, Bill Hawks and Chris Hale, well, them's no small potatoes!