It’s nice to be quoted, even if it’s only your pen name, in my case “Michael Richards.” In “Churchill’s Legendary Thirst,” The Herald (Scotland) of 4 October 2014, drinks columnist Tom Bruce-Gardyne kindly quotes me while revealing the astonishing calculation that Churchill drank 42,000 bottles of champagne!….
The claim is one of a stream culled from a new book by the team behind the television programme QI. The total amount of fizz – enough to float a battleship – is a simple calculation which takes an arbitrary date of 1908, when Sir Winston Churchill was 34, and assumes he drank an average of two bottles a day for the rest of his life….…
