Wine Vintages by Michael Broadbent

This is the 1998 edition of Michael Broadbent's Wine Vintages. I looked it up to comment on the 1984 vintage, which was so poor that generally people don't talk about it. First published in 1992, there was a second edition in 1995, but this is the only copy I have. In this edition, there were 6 chapters of French Classics; 6 for European wines; another 6 for New World (but 3 of these are American regions) but no South America and finally Champagne, Port and Madeira. The extent of historical coverage is variable, but red and white Bordeaux and Burgundy extended to 1900 with a few comments about pre-1900 wines. Rhone, Loire and Alsace went back to 1970 as did Germany and California etc. One would have expected Madeira to extend quite far historically, but it seems that although many older vintages are still a pleasure to drink, the year by year analysis only sent back to 1980, with an extended list of star ratings of vintages going back to 1792!!