Wine vintage rating 1950

Wine vintage rating 2000

What was the vintage 1950 like?

1950 the evaluation is different from different wine critics. As different as sometimes the wines at the wineries. In Bordeaux, the weather was dry and the harvest was early and productive. Rather a Merlot favorable year. In Piedmont not too full-bodied, fine wines.

The year 1950 brought very high yields. The quality of the resulting wines is very inconsistent. The wines from Pomerol, Graves and Margaux often perform best. Conclusion: there are very good 1950s, but they are now also very rare.

Weather in the year 1950

The year started dry and with warm temperatures in February. On the other hand, it got unusually cold in April and early May. Then the weather conditions changed into the opposite: June 1950 was exceptionally hot. The summer remained dry but not particularly warm.

In Burgundy there were some of the recurring hailstorms that hit part of the vineyards. Late summer became rainy, so harvesting had to be done early in the vineyard to avoid damage to the grapes.

The current stock of wines from the 2000 vintage

All wines from the 2000 vintage are in our own wine cellar and can be shipped immediately or picked up at the wine shop. To the wines of 2000

Good filling levels, good wine quality

The fill level of an old vintage wine reveals important information on the drinkability of the wine.
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.

Wine rating

Do you have a 2000 vintage in your wine cellar and would you like to know how much it is worth?

Here are a few tips: in order to still have any value, the bottle must be leakproof. The wine must not be cloudy. It should be of good quality (not supermarket wine).

Search for the wine online without specifying the vintage. If it is a well-known winery, you will find the wine immediately and also the price you have to pay for the current vintage. If the current wine costs from EUR 20.00 upwards, that's a good sign.

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Wine-vertical Clos des Menuts Grand Cru vintage 1950

Grand Cru Classé - Bordeaux - Saint Émilion

Three excellent wines of Clos des Menuts Grand Cru Classé from Saint Emilion from 3 different years for the vintage 1950.

The tasting of {age} years through single steps is a charming present for any wine lover.
Wine experts love these kind of vertical wine tastings: they emphasize the different phases of these valuable wines, and how their color and taste both change when ripening.

1990=32 years + 1998=24 years + 2006=16 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.
Thanks to the wine vertical for the {age}th jubilation, you can elegantly avoid a true dichotomy. In fact, any proud owner of a bottle from his birth date asks himself if he really wants to open the wine bottle, or if he preferably keeps it in his wine vault. With the wine vertical, you can taste the last {age} years, step after step.

€220.00

Content: 2.25 Liter (€97.78 / 1 Liter)
Quantity: 2

Ready for shipment, delivery 1-3 working days

Wine-vertical Top vineyards for the vintage 1950

Große Lage - Bourgogne Umbria Mosel

For the vertical tasting of the 1950 vintage - three wines from classic growing regions. The age of 75 years can be calculated from the three vintages compiled here.

1988 = 37 years + 1998 = 27 years + 2014 = 11 years = a total of 75 years and three excellent individual vintages!

Tasting the past years step by step is a charming gift for a wine lover. The selected vintages also represent a review of the formative periods of the jubilarian's life. The age of the 1950 vintage - 75 years - is the sum of the ages of the three individual vintages.

Here, for example: the vertical for the 1950 vintage in 2025 with a total of 75-year-old famous wines:

1988 Kiedricher Sandgrub 1.Lage Riesling Rheingau = 37 years old

1998 Sagrantino di Montefalco Arnaldo Caprai Umbria = 27 years old

2014 Gevrey Chambertin La Justice Gerard Seguin Bourgogne = 11 years old

37+27+11 years old = 75th anniversary - Germany, France, Italy

Very old wines from the 1950 vintage, if they are very well preserved and still drinkable, have an exorbitant price. And they are less suited to being drunk by the glass in the classic way, but rather unfold their charm when tasted in homeopathic doses - in other words, a few sips. Mature wines from the 80s - 90s, on the other hand, are very well suited to real tasting, real drinking.

€260.00

Content: 2.25 Liter (€115.56 / 1 Liter)
Quantity: 2

Ready for shipment, delivery 1-3 working days