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Italian: In Italy, 1961 wine is considered to be one of the greatest vintages of the 20th century. The wines from Piedmont (Barolo, Barbaresco and Barbara) and Tuscany (Chianti, Brunello) are outstanding. The wines are now fully mature and, with careful cellaring, will still keep for many years to come.
Bordeaux: This is one of the legendary vintages of the century. Although most of the 1961 wines are now fading slowly, the top examples continue to shine through offering concentrated, ripe fruit with amazing bouquets. The crop was tiny and there are very few examples available. Provided the bottles have been stored correctly these wines should last for another decade.
Port: Not generally a declared year but the hot weather produced some concentrated ports. The harvest started in extremely hot conditions at the river quintas in early september and progressed in other areas until the end of the month making it a long drawn out vintage. The picking required a very rigorous selection which entails picking out the burnt and imperfect grapes from the bunches before putting them in the baskets. This led to a small harvest. The 1961 ports produced are still drinking well today.
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A bottle of 1961 Colheita Port and a 1961 Barolo (£195 - save £75 on separate selling price)
A wonderful 50th gift.
A bottle of 1961 Krohn Colheita Port and a bottle of 1961 Barolo Pira Secondo in a silk-lined double presentation box.
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Price: £195.00
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Colheita Port
Krohn are a small family-owned Port house run by brother and sister Jose and Iolanda Carneiro. Long renowned for the quality of their sublime Colheitas (single vintage tawnies), they produce a remarkably complete range for a small house and each wine excels in its category. The Quinta do Retiro Novo estate in Sarzedinho, in the Rio Torto valley, is all A grade vineyard. Vinification takes place here, with some of the top wines still being trodden by foot. All the wines are matured in cellars at Villa Nova de Gaia.
Wine Magazine - Tawny Port Tasting - December 2002 - 89 /100 points
'Hugely concentrated, intense, multi-layered, complex wine. …
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Price: £139.95
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Marchesi de Barolo SPECIAL OFFER WAS £149, NOW £100
91 Points Cellar Tracker
"Smooth sour cherries. Lot of fruit in this wine, would have never guessed it was almost 50 years old" Cellar Tracker Tasted 2010.
"Right out of the bottle, the colour of this wine hardly betrays any age. The nose at first has a lot of earth, but hey, the wine has been corked up for almost 50 years. This blows off and leaves classic Barolo aromas and flavours - tangy nebbiolo fruit, some mild exotic spice, hints of flowers, tiny bit of band-aid. The palate is also surprisingly young. No oxidation shows, really - just surprising full fruit, again exotic spice - this is medium bodied but full of vitality. …
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Price: £100.00
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Pio Cesare (DAMAGED LABEL)
In the glass this wine has a solid red core with red/orange on the rim. On the nose, there's cedar, mushrooms, and a bit of light cherry. On the palate, a woody note - teak or rosewood perhaps, with cedar. Rather ethereal. With time, lovely fruit emerges and the wine shows gorgeous, elegant maraschino notes. Mushrooms round out the earthy side of this. Given its age this is still a wonderful, complete wine
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Price: £75.00
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Carretta Tenuta - Vecchio Michet
Raw meat, tart red cherry fruit, cola, floral and exotic spice nuances in the nose very complex. Smooth silky texture on the tongue with that dry tart red cherry like fruit and a host of earth, spice and still a bit of tannins left but very long finish with lots of fruit and dark spices on the finish
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Price: £109.95
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Mascarello Luigi - Sottana Bussia
Deep but not opaque garnet with a touch of bricking. Nose of sweet tar, earth, cooked red fruits, leather, soy, some cedar and a hint of roses. The palate is medium bodied, rich, well integrated with excellent structure.
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Price: £129.95
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Bosca Reserve Speciale
please bear in mind that this wine comes in 2 different labels (see photo)
Barolo is known as the 'king of wines' and is made from the Nebbiolo grape. Heady aromas of rose, leather, vanilla, cherry, pepper, cranberry, strawberry. Fruits are perfectly knitted with the tannins and acidity. It's a powerful wine but remarkably subtle. Don't underestimate it and certainly serve it with food to show at it's best. Nebbiolo has naturally high tannins and acidity, so it will take on full-flavoured, rich foods no problem at all.
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Price: £119.00
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St Julien, 2me Grand Cru Classe (6cm below cork, bin soiled label)
"The 1961 is among the greatest mature wines of Gruaud-Larose I have drunk. This powerful, rich, densely concentrated wine remains young, fresh, and vigorous, with a full decade of life ahead. It continues to exhibit a dark garnet color with some amber, a wonderfully fragrant quality (plus, minerals, tar, cedar, soy sauce, and licorice), a viscous texture, sensation depth of fruit, and a fabulous, albeit alcoholic finish. This is claret at its most decadent. Anticipated maturity: now-2015." Parker, Wine Advocate 1994. Rating 96/100 "Deep brick core with tawny rim. The nose is lovely, akin to the 1982 but more open, with mint, mulberry, a touch of strawberry compote and orange rind. …
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Price: £295.00
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St Julien, 2me Grand Cru Classe (5cm below cork, bin soiled label)
"The 1961 is among the greatest mature wines of Gruaud-Larose I have drunk. This powerful, rich, densely concentrated wine remains young, fresh, and vigorous, with a full decade of life ahead. It continues to exhibit a dark garnet color with some amber, a wonderfully fragrant quality (plus, minerals, tar, cedar, soy sauce, and licorice), a viscous texture, sensation depth of fruit, and a fabulous, albeit alcoholic finish. This is claret at its most decadent. Anticipated maturity: now-2015." Parker, Wine Advocate 1994. Rating 96/100 "Deep brick core with tawny rim. The nose is lovely, akin to the 1982 but more open, with mint, mulberry, a touch of strawberry compote and orange rind. …
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Price: £375.00
Stock: 1 in Stock
