To tell you
the truth, 1984 is a bad year for wine. Yet apart from the local Hong Kong
population who have special reasons to remember 1997*, 1984 has become an
infamous year because of George Orwell's novel, which ranks with Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World as two of the best known examples of dystopian novels
of political satire. I use this picture of the cover of Nineteen Eighty-four to
introduce the idea of certain special years, in this case, extra special
vintages, which we will explore in this miniseries.
1984 is generally bad for most if not all of Europe. California, Oregon and Australia seems to have had good weather and grape harvests, which will be useful for those wanting to splash out on a bottle of their birthday vintage, but for the rest of us we can take the hint from those vintage chart in various websites (usually not included) and give it a miss.
* Actually 1984 is also significant for Hongkongers too, as the Sino-British Joint Declaration declaring the resumption of sovereignty of China over Hong Kong on 1st July 1997, was signed in December 1984.
1984 is generally bad for most if not all of Europe. California, Oregon and Australia seems to have had good weather and grape harvests, which will be useful for those wanting to splash out on a bottle of their birthday vintage, but for the rest of us we can take the hint from those vintage chart in various websites (usually not included) and give it a miss.
* Actually 1984 is also significant for Hongkongers too, as the Sino-British Joint Declaration declaring the resumption of sovereignty of China over Hong Kong on 1st July 1997, was signed in December 1984.
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