The Good Wine describes Doris McCarthys from 1950 to 1991. At age forty, she broke free of her teaching responsibilities to take a year's sabbatical in Europe as a full-time painter. It was the first of many adventures in the wider world that included a solitary round-the- world odyssey from Japan to Australia, India to the Middle East. She discovered the Arctic and in 1991, Antarctica, drawing inspiration for her art and her life in the far-flung corners she visited and in the beloved landscape of her own country. Encounters with Dorothy Sayers and Arnold Toynbee, friendships with Bora Laskin and Boyd Neel, politics and controversies within the fledgling Canadian art community, the painful losses and unexpected victories of later life -- all colour this account of four decades that saw her recognized as one of Canada's foremost landscape painters. Doris McCarthy's vibrant, creative energy, her intense and hard-won independence, the great strength she found in love and friendships make thissecond volume of her memoirs as enchanting as the first.