1994 was hardly a ‘Vintage year’ for new quinolones. The only new entities were two from Korea (CFC 222, DW 116), one from Medionalum-Italy (MF 5137), two from Argentina (NSFQ-104, 105), one from Japan Wakunaga (WQ 2128), and a series of 7-azetidinyl derivatives from Esteves Spain [1].