In my impression, when a person climbs up to a certain level, there is always a relationship with wine. Manor, wine list, AOC legal production area, Lafite in 1982, etc. These terms can all be heard in parties, banquets, socializing, investing, living, especially in movies.
I watched a 2006 film called "A Good Year" on this day. After watching the movie for a while, look at the name and think more deeply, that is, know that it has something to do with wine? The most basic common sense of wine is that the drink is not the brand, not the manor, but the vintage. The vintage of that year was the best, the grapes grew the best, and the wine produced was of course good.
Here, I will talk about movies first, and then talk about wine.
The film is very romantic in French films, and the protagonist finally returns to the theme of wanting beauties and not the world. Of course, the protagonist of the movie's child is of course very beautiful. The film is also very light and beautiful, and the scenery makes people feel the atmosphere of a manor in the south of France. I heard that the film was made by the Americans. No wonder the rhythm of the filming is brisk, without the sourness and incomprehensibility of French films at all.
The protagonist grew up in a French wine estate, witnessed the growth of a mysterious bottle of wine, and later went to England to be the most annoying trader. This kind of wine was carefully made by a farmer and an old man.
When I saw the film, I saw that the wine seemed to be called GP1983. I checked my wine information brochure again. It turned out that 83 is not a very good vintage, and 82 is. No wonder the screenwriter chose this mysterious wine to exist in the '83 vintage. Only when a miracle is created in the ordinary can it be called a miracle.
I remembered that a few years ago, I bought a French original wine for the first time, and someone introduced a good vintage 2000, so I should buy it. It's a pity that I didn't buy it, because now it can really appreciate a little bit. But think about it, even if I bought it, I would drink it a long time ago, so I can keep it now. I also saw a bottle of 1988, which was only 8,000 yuan, not from the main manor, but just a secondary card.
When money is linked to the quality of life, it becomes vulgar. Look at those petty bourgeoisies, it’s never a good wine to drink in a cafe. What is good, money is said to be vulgar. I think I had made such a mistake back then. For example, when I was eating cake at a teacher’s house, I asked others how much the cake cost.
In the movie, at the end there is a Van Gogh oil painting hanging in the office of the securities boss. The protagonist asks him "What chance do you have to see this painting?" In fact, how many noble things we have in this duny world are kept for collection. Or it can be closed to make people feel that it is different from life, so it is noble. The last oil painting was in a small French restaurant. Everyone took a look at it. This was the noblest return.
Am I talking about painting? no.
Am I talking about nobility and vulgarity? no.
I'm talking about wine. How much wine is in China, where it’s “dried” during potbelly dining. Who said that the rich have no vision, they are experts at picking expensive ones. If they start several times, they will be shrewd to find Lafite in 1982. They just put all the noblest things back into their stomachs immediately, and they don't let others have a chance to be noble at all.
The most noble way to drink wine is to meet friends, eat at any place, and you can really taste the aroma of the wine. This makes it unnecessary for wine to walk in our stomachs for a while.
I think of an unproven legend written in the book of Yang Zhao, a well-known Taiwanese critic. In fact, put the red wine and white wine together, keep the same temperature, let all the tasters close their eyes to distinguish, most of them will not be able to tell whether it is red wine or white wine.
This view is equivalent to the TV news saying that the quality of wine does not lie in the fact that others say it is good or not, but whether it is expensive or not, but only in your mood when you drink it, and the taste of it when you drink it.
A Good Year, a good year.
Yes, but someone who can drink is needed.
kevienj.2008.01.12
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