Wine vintage rating 1946
1946 The wines of Piedmont harmonious and elegant - In contrast, the weather in Bordeaux was too difficult after the grandiose, dense previous year. During the course of the year it was always too wet. Château Haut Brion did without the Château bottling and left the marketing of their retail bottlings to the wine merchants. Cheval Blanc was less dissatisfied with its wine, it aged quite well. Due to the damp, cool September, the grapes ripened late and the harvest took place on September 30th. until 14.10.
Weather in the year 1946
Good filling levels, good wine quality
Of course, the good condition of a wine from an old vintage depends on excellent storage. Above all, the wine must not have frequently changed cellars. Ideally, the wine will have rested in one and the same wine cellar.
But also the cork that sits in each individual bottle is very important. A perfect cork has few pores and keeps the wine stable. If an inferior cork happens to have been used in a bottle, the porous surface will begin to soak up wine and allow micro-quantities of the liquid to evaporate over the decades. Poor fill levels are the result.
A poor fill level therefore also indicates a high risk that the wine bottle could soon begin to leak.
The fill levels explained:
In the bottle neck (high fill to base neck) about 2 cm is perfect for wines.
Top and upper shoulder, ([very] top shoulder), approx. 3 cm is very good for very old wines.
Medium shoulder (mid shoulder), about 4 cm is only acceptable for rare top wines and in individual cases.
Everything below the red line should not be offered any more.
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Three excellent wines of the Bordeaux region - all Grand Cru Classé from Saint Emilion for the vintage 1946.
The tasting of {age} years through single steps is a charming present for any wine lover.
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1985=34 years + 1995=24 years + 2004=15 years = {age} years !
The most interesting thing is the wine-tasting of a vertical which has wines with the same characteristic. Just like these classified Grand Cru Classé wines, from St. Emilion.
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Content:
2.25 Liter
(€108.89 / 1 Liter)
Quantity: 4
Three bottles of fine Riesling from three important wine regions in Germany for a vertical tasting of the 1946 vintage. But not just a simple vintage tasting, rather a vertical tasting, a thought experiment, which adds up to a total age of 80 years. 1983 = 43 years + 2003 = 23 years + 2012 = 14 years = a total of 80 years and three excellent individual vintages!
Retasting the past years in individual steps is a charming gift with a deeper meaning for a wine lover. The selected wine vintages represent, as it were, a review of the formative stages of the jubilarian's life.
The age of the 1946 vintage – 80 years – is the sum of the ages of the three individual vintages.
Wine experts love such vertical tastings. It becomes very clear how high-quality wines develop in different phases. How the wines change from color to taste as they mature.
The most impressive thing is tasting a vertical of wines with the same characteristics, such as Rieslings with a characteristic balance between acidity and fruit, with minerality and ripe notes.
Very old wines from the 1946 vintage, provided they are very well preserved and still drinkable, command exorbitant prices. They are less suited to being drunk by the glass in the traditional manner, but rather reveal their charm when tasted in homeopathic doses—that is, a few sips. Mature wines from the 1980s and 1990s, on the other hand, are very well suited for real tasting, real drinking.
Content:
2.25 Liter
(€108.89 / 1 Liter)
Quantity: 4
Content:
2.25 Liter
(€116.44 / 1 Liter)
Quantity: 3