In the West, most ordinary people in the city have lost their connection with the agricultural sector which supplies them with food. The apparent disbelief of some in discovering that meat comes from dead animals is a case in point, a less likely scenario in this city because of the widespread sight of slaughtered beasts or at least of recognizable parts in the markets. Yet however much one disconnects the food we eat to the agriculture industry that produces it, an in depth interest in wine brings us back to an interest in things that affects the growth of crop plants and the abundance of their produce - a somewhat roundabout way of reconnecting back to nature.
Natural disasters have a difference significance when one reads of it in the news. I remembered reading in the South China Morning Post about a particularly nasty hailstorm in northern Burgundy, which took a heavy toll in the Chablis region in 1998 and decided perhaps this was one year to avoid. Come harvest, the rest of the weather for the growing season for Chablis was not bad, so the grapes that survived made fair to good wines for drinking, but not for long term keeping!!
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