Wine in Pepys: Ho Bryan and beyond

Wine in Pepys: Ho Bryan and beyond

Note, you wine collectors with however many dozens or hundreds or thousands of bottles in your cellar (or tucked away in the cupboard under the stairs), note what Samuel Pepys had in his collection and feel, across some 460 years, a warm twinge of fellow feeling at his pleasure. In his diary entry for July 7, 1665, Pepys reflects gratefully on “to what a condition it hath pleased God to bring me,” but he does so with something that seems more li…