1959
The vintage year 1959 is one in Bordeaux well exceptionally excellent wine year. He is counted as one of the best of the last century together with 1961 and the 1982s century wines towering for the twin vintages 1928/1929, the 1945, vintage, one, today. This one let ideal growth terms with a warm summer and a high number of sun hours ripen grapes perfectly extract and colour and many collected her berry bowls. The autumn was spoiled by raining easily, therefore most enterprises moved he harvest to behind. The fully ripe grapes were reaped and transported into the cellar about 2 weeks later than on average. The profits were quite high, the wines are marked by an independent, vintage typical taste. This one difficult was relatively seen low acid amount of the wines looked as beginning. One saw a lacking balance and a moderate ageing potential. However, this assumption vanished fast. The low acid could available components like tannic etc. by the remaining, in excess, more than be compensated. The plants are impressive because of opulence and refinement with an insane, multilayered flavour. A lot of wines were drinking ripe only after 30 and more years and, today, still are powerfully acting young! The 1959s vintage is surely a grand Vin in the French sense. The best locum tenenses of the vintage 1959 are chateau Latour, chateau Cheval Blanc, chateau Lafite Rothschild, chateau Mouton Rothschild, chateau Petrus and chateau skin Brion as well as La mission Haut Brion. The smaller ones also produced chateau goods into 1959 exceptionally excellent wines of high elegance. A search is worthwhile in any case here. Unfortunately, the wines are becoming rare now and are only difficult to obtain. Being on the lookout!
Quite weak port year! Not declared by the producers. Avoiding.
In the German wine cultivable areas a century vintage with infinitely long-lasting berries and dry wines of selected grapes. One gets rich here furthermore, too. Even selections are very nice to drink now. Very high sugar contents caused by the hot summer let wines arise of great elegance. The best vintage since 1937 and 1945. The state wine-growing estate cloister Eberbach Steinberger Riesling dry wine of selected grapes wine and the dry wine of selected grapes of the situation Erbacher Marcobrunn of the castle Reinhartshausen is examples of the glory of the vintage in the Rhine district. Expensive but immortal wines of world format.
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