2005 was the best year: France had a hot and dry summer, so the grapes got a high concentration in sugars and tannins, which gave to most wines of that year an extreme deepness and complexity.
Oh, I miss 2005 so much.
It felt like maybe the 2nd Gulf War was starting to wind down a bit, and there was some hope that maybe both the US and Al-Qaeda/Islamic State were going to chill their boots a little.
The internet was at its peak in terms of usefulness versus not having been taken over and enshittified by a tiny collection of megacorporations.
The UK had just passed the Civil Partnership Act for same-sex couples, and a few other countries had something similar.
TV was getting pretty good as well.
Yeah, the 90s were still best, but 2005 was the best year since then.
2005 was the best year: France had a hot and dry summer, so the grapes got a high concentration in sugars and tannins, which gave to most wines of that year an extreme deepness and complexity. Oh, I miss 2005 so much.
Yeah 2005 was good.
It felt like maybe the 2nd Gulf War was starting to wind down a bit, and there was some hope that maybe both the US and Al-Qaeda/Islamic State were going to chill their boots a little.
The internet was at its peak in terms of usefulness versus not having been taken over and enshittified by a tiny collection of megacorporations.
The UK had just passed the Civil Partnership Act for same-sex couples, and a few other countries had something similar.
TV was getting pretty good as well.
Yeah, the 90s were still best, but 2005 was the best year since then.