For others the problem is the weather - for us it is war

He [Michael Rayment] went and looked at the ancient vineyards Gaston Hochar had revived in 1932 when he sent his son Serge to be trained in Bordeaux as a wine maker. He remarked later: 'You cannot have a vintage every year: for others the problem is the weather - for us it is war.'

J. Arlott, 'Battlefield vintage [March 1984]', ed. D.R. Allen, Arlott on wine (1986), 187