Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...craze that began in France, where trendy Parisians got wise to the fact that wine could still be fun if you drank it fresh and young, instead of first hiding it away in the cellar for 50 years...
...much fun, they decided, that very soon they were drinking it in bacchanalian quantities. Brand new Beaujolais was the young wine of choice. made and then bottled at extraordinary speed from grapes harvested only a few weeks earlier. No fashionable cafe was complete without it: the more...
Then the Brits caught on. As midnight struck on the night when the latest year's wine was officially released, dashing restaurateurs would load up their sports cars and speed back through the darkened French countryside in order to be the first to serve the Nouveau at their cosmopolitan London bistros...
...race was born, and the good Beaujolais burghers rubbed their hands with Gallic glee as they exploited a miraculous new way of turning a feeble wine into a majestic profit...
Each November now, a common release date is declared, and incredible quantities of thin red wine are hurtled through Europe in prime time for consumption and consideration next morning...