1987 Wine and Port Vintage

Vintage Summary and Recommendations:
Welcome to Vintage Wine and Port's 1987 wine page. Read on for our summary of the 1987 vintage, our top recommendations and region reports. Scroll down to see all of our wines currently available. If you cannot find what you are looking for please call us on 01425 837177 or Contact Us. We would love to help you with your wine choice!

The 1987 vintage was a bit of a mixed bag globally and a particularly poor vintage for Europe. In France, Bordeaux, Sauternes, Burgundy and Beaujolais had strictly average years, while Champagne and the Rhône Valley were poor. Piedmont and Tuscany also endured less than a spectacular year. A wine from 1987 would make a great 38 year old wine gift for an Anniversary or birthday.


Our Wine Expert currently recommends the following wines for this year:

Kopke 1987 Quinta St Luiz Vintage Port

Ryst Dupeyron Armagnac 1987 Reserve Joseph Millesime vintage Armagnac

Bodegas Toro Alabala 1987 Don Px – Half Bottle

Bairrada 1987 Frei Joao

Barbaresco 1987 Cascina Vano di Rivetti Beppe Figlio

Chateau Latour 1987 Paulliac 1er Grand Cru Classe

 
This Year in History: Fun Fact: Channel Tunnel construction is initiated, and was expected to open in 1993 or early-1994 and was officially opened 6th May 1994.
Eurovision Winner: Ireland with the song "Hold Me Now" by Johnny Logan
Born in this Year: Sir Andy Murray, Tennis Player, Professional tennis champion who won the Gold Medal in the 2012 and 2016 Men's Tennis Olympics. He also won the 2012 US Open and the 2013 and 2016 Wimbledon Opens. He became the first British man in 77 years to win the British Open when he defeated Novak Djokovic in 2013.
Top Grossing Movie: Fatal Attraction
 
Bordeaux: In Bordeaux, the 1987 is generally under-rated as a vintage. Had it not been for 14 straight days of rainfall in early October, then the harvest would have been a great one. The wines are characterised by being light to medium bodied, ripe and fruity with low tannins and low acidity. 1987 wines are generally overlooked in favour of the great vintages that followed in 1988-1990. However, those producers who adopted strict selection policies produced some very good wines which still make good drinking but should be consumed soon.
 
Italian: 1987 was a good vintage for the Italian region. The wines produced are generally of good consistency. Barolos are now fully mature and ready for drinking.
 
Portugal: The 1987 was very close to being a fully-fledged Vintage. The port wines are balanced and elegant and will provide fine drinking in the medium-term. The result is that the consumer can buy Ports at a fraction of the price of what they would have cost, providing good value for money. These quality Ports would make an excellent 38 year old wine gift for a birthday or anniversary.
 

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