1994 Napa Cabernets - 25 Years On Dinners (HK)

 Date: 22nd October 2019 (Tuesday) Time: 7 P.M. Ticket: HKD 7,800 per seat RSVP: http://bit.ly/1994NAPAHK ==================== Twenty five years rolls around, and it is time to evaluate one of my very favourite Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon vintages – 1994. There are a few reasons why this vintage has long been a favourite of mine. First of all, the growing season was relatively textbook, adequate but not excessive water, plenty of sunshine but an absence of heatwaves, ripening evolution was slow, with a fairly late harvest of healthy, complex grapes was on offer. Second of all, style. The fashion for bigger-is-better had not quite begun in 1994 (I think the floodgates opened there with the 1997s), yet the long period favouring a more austere style typified in the 1980s had largely ended. So for me, 1994 provides a style sweet spot from a vintage also prepared to give it. Finally, from the few 1994s I have…