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Have you ever wondered why two bottles from the same famous vineyard cost dramatically different prices? The year on the label – the vintage – is the most crucial, and often hidden, clue to quality. Sometimes, it matters more than the wine’s name!
I reveal the truth behind vintage, showing you how to spot the difference between a legendary harvest and a weak year – so you never overpay for a disappointing bottle.
In this video, you will understand the true meaning of “great vintage” vs. “weak vintage” and how it affects the wine in your glass.
I show you which wines (like Bordeaux, Barolo, and Vintage Champagne) require a great year, and when you can completely ignore the date (Pinot Grigio, Rosé).
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Yet more incredibly useful information, as usual 👍🏽🥂
Got it, no hassles! Excellent reference. Polished and informative – like you!
1975 Chateau-Lascombes Grand Cru Classe Margaux? (bottle 105475) Have this bottle sitting here : ) Thoughts? I'm not the wine expert.
I'm not bragging but a '61 Bordeaux…legendary. No coincidence it's the year of my birth, another legendary item of that…at least to my mom.
I’m a wine enthusiast. The more wine I drink, the more enthusiastic I get. Thanks for the good info!
Thanks for the advice, Anya. Suprisingly, when visiting even top producers (Yquem and Margaux come to mind) they sometimes will serve less intense recent vintages to visitors for two reasons that I can imagine: they show better for immediate drinking, and they are less valuable to the chateaux for future sales. The best of the best can make good wine in bad years, or don't sell it at all under the top label.
Precise as usual 👍
Incredibly handy and straightforward vintage guide, thank you!
Rombauer Chardonnay sometimes has that yummy minerally flavor.
Thank you so much. You are very impressive, great advice explained so well, best wishes
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As a Bordeaux enthusiast who doesn't have the budget to constantly buy the best wines in good vintages, trying to figure out what the best values are, that you can afford is always tricky. It's almost like putting up a formula: Quality of vintage x age x quality of producer + price= value (ok, that wasn't an actual formula, just as an example). It would be nice to buy a case of 2000 Mouton Rothschild and a case of 1982 Petrus once a month, but then I wouldn't have any food to go with it 😉 . Then you sometime have to go with lesser vintages like 11, 14, 17 or 21. Those years it's more about doing the leg work to find out which producers were lucky/skilled to harvest at the right time/made the right blend etc. Latour tend be good in lesser vintages…even though it's not they're cheap in those vintages anyway. The 21 vintage is the one I've wrapped my head around trying to understand the most lately. It's not a bad vintage, but it's not made for those opaque super concentrated wines. The sweet spot that I've found have been the good producers in warm, solid appellations, while lesser appellations tend to make leaner wines. Thanks a lot for the pdf sheet. It was very snappy and informative 🙂
Thank you for the well-presented information.
Sorry for the late comment. Catching up after a busy week. Is it fair to say that a good vintage is the same for all vineyards in a region or is it the case that one vineyard can have a good year while another in the same region can have a bad year?