1945
The vintage year 1945 is the century vintage in Bordeaux. Extremely long-lasting, multilayered, artful, balanced and good structured wines were produced. Moreover, the early harvest looked after the vintners for an easy start. The splendid summer let the grapes mature fully, the berry bowls got thick and contributed to the high tannin structure. Through this the 1945s wines are durable very long. The ageing potential is so good as in the case of hardly another Bordeaux vintage. Another 1928, 1959 and 1961 as well as 1982 are probably similarly good. Moreover, cellar technology was traditionally oriented at that time and therefore the most different growth arose within the region. As opposed to today's unit mash of the Bordeaux region the consultant activity of the wine popes also was not given yet. The wines are marked by an independence through this and the wine connoisseur gets completely different wine types with character of one's own and charm advisably. The best wine of the vintage is chateau Mouton Rothschild, perhaps the millennium wine and furthermore one single and unforgettable experience in good bottles. Unfortunately, more forgeries than genuine copies are available in today's time. Relating cases to everyone only from serious sources. Further very good wines are chateau Lafite Rothschild, chateau skin Brion, chateau Petrus, chateau Vieux Certan and chateau Ausone. Incredibly good and multilayered wines produced chateau wines the less known this rewards for a search still for a long time. A tip is certainly this vintage and every wine enthusiast should have bordeaux in the cellar some 1945s.
21 port houses declared the really good vintage. Small profits at excellent qualities produced long-lasting and charming wines a purchase is furthermore rewarding for. Noval, Niepoort, Ferreira and Taylor produced very attractive ports. Furthermore very well durable and full of little risk!
Also a super vintage in Germany of best quality. Today, extremely small profits almost make him unattainable, however, the wines do not have to be obtained any more. A hot summer provided high sugar contents and very long-lasting sweet wines. A millennium wine which still has lives ahead of himself for quite a number of decades was produced with Erbacher Marcobrunn Riesling dry wine of selected grapes on castle Schönborn. A sweet wine of world format and in this expression surely by lengths better than Yquem or Rieussec.
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