101 Ways to Celebrate the New Year
Celebrate New Year’s in Hong Kong with a vintage wine.
With New Year’s Eve just around the corner, picking a good bottle of wine is always a good idea, provided you know what to pick.
Celebration usually marks an event that is dear to us and to our host. Choosing a bottle of vintage wine from the year that is most important to you or the recipient – ie the year that marked the beginning of something special, a new venture, an anniversary etc – is the perfect gift. Bacchus & Century, a new boutique wine shop that’s just opened its doors recently, has 101 consecutive years of French vintage wines from 1900 up to 2000.
These vintage wines will be a time machine to take you and your host back to a certain year to relive those fond memories once again. The ‘Shop’s Guardian’ Eric, my partner with an extensive knowledge of French vintage wine, will guide you in your selection.
Below are some suggestions of occasions that are ideal to mark with a bottle of vintage wine, but the possibilities really are infinite.
For a person:
- birth year
- graduation
- wedding
- year their first child was born
For a company:
- inception
- IPO
- anniversaries
- milestones
And for those of you who are worried that your money might be wasted on an expensive bottle of wine, while the gift recipient may know nothing about wine at all, I can guarantee that the impact is worth the investment. If somebody were to offer me a French vintage wine of my birth year, so many questions would immediately rush to my mind. How does he know my birth year? Where on earth did he get this bottle? I would also probably think that he/she must have paid a lot of money for it, and what else happened on that year? Can I drink it now or should I keep it? But, most importantly, it means that you took the trouble to find out about them. It’s giving them a piece of personal history, one that’s rare and once consumed, not to be found again.
- Rene Wong is a Wine Advisor at Bacchus & Century, 30-32 Wyndham Street, LangKwai Fong, Tel:66811825, where they are ready to help you usher in the new year.
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