For wine lovers and collectors this is the indispensable guide not only for finding out what
happened in a particular season but providing wider historical and social context. Every
single year is accompanied by one event or milestone one song or musical composition and one
film that encapsulates the spirit of the time as well as the world into which the vintage was
born. Neal Martin offers a personal witty take on the traditional wine handbook with notes on
not just the growing seasons harvests and wines themselves but also cultural phenomena
