Likewise, mine sits out on the bar and gets used pretty much every time I open a bottle of red wine.

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It's a cold winter afternoon, and instead of making the tea she had suggested, she decides to open a bottle of red wine.

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One evening, when she and Hilda were sharing a bottle of red wine, she explained what Ryan had done to kill himself, cutting his wrists with razor blades and bleeding to death in the bath.

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If you follow Aussie tradition and play a game of "bottle, bottle, bottle, " where players bet a bottle of red wine on the front nine, back nine and total score, toast your victory at the balcony of this holiday home, which backs onto a deep-water mooring on the yacht-lined Coomera River.

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Outside of park benches, socialising often happens over a bottle of local red wine in a romantic bar or in a boliche (nightclub).

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The house was filled with impromptu dinner parties, bridge games, storytelling sessions over the sticky kitchen table, on which there always sat a large bottle of red wine.

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No cigarettes or tobacco are on the list of needs, but a couple are permitted to buy four cans of lager and a bottle of red (keeps better than white) wine each week.

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George likes a nice glass of wine when he's cooking, red wine from a green bottle.

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But now that they were out of the October chill and inside the warm house she offered him a glass of dark-red Catena wine, from a bottle originally purchased by her husband.

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While it was being prepared, I scampered around to a wine shop next door, bought a nice bottle of Australian red, got them to open it for me and took it back into the Sagano to have with my meal.

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