1990 Wine and Port Vintage

Vintage Summary and Recommendations:

Welcome to Vintage Wine and Port's 1990 wine page. Read on for our summary of the 1990 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 1990 vintage was overall brilliant, even legendary in places. Almost every region produced wines of fantastic quality, with very few regions suffering. There will also be a wide range of wines from Burgundy and Rhône that will have developed complexity, particularly from the top estates. Barolo was superb and will be making some spectacular drinking from now to the next few years. The sweet wines of Sauternes will easily still be holding their own and are likely to keep on going for some time. Any of these wines would make a fabulous 35 year old wine gift for an Anniversary or birthday.


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

Palmer Port 1990 Single Harvest Tawny Port

Ryst Dupeyron Armagnac 1990 Reserve Joseph Millesime vintage Armagnac

Dao 1990 Porto dos Cavaleiros

Toro Albalá POLEY Amontillado en rama- 35 Year Old

 
This Year in History: Fun Fact: A Mars bar would have cost you 27p, a litre of unleaded petrol would have cost just 40.2p per litre and the average price of a pint of milk was 30p.
Eurovision Winner: Italy with the song "Insieme: 1992" by Toto Cutugno
Top Grossing Movie: Ghost
 
Bordeaux: 1990 Wine Vintage was the third year in a row of excellent Bordeaux vintages. The hot, dry sunny year ensured that, like many of the great vintages, 1990 produced rich wines from across the Bordeaux region. Many of the red wines from this vintage have a roasted or baked quality derived from the hot sun ripening the grapes. The vintage is characterised by having a tannic quality coupled with low acidity. Most of the quality wines from this vintage are still at the peak of their maturity, making them great wine gifts.
 
Italian: 1990 was a spectacular vintage for Italy, one of the best in modern times. Most producers made very good wines at all levels. The wines are drinking well but will continue to develop with good cellaring.
 
Portugal: The 1990 Port vintage produced abundant quantities of good quality port wine. Generally produced as Single Quintas and outstanding Colheita Port. Paul Symington writes "The Douro 1990 Vintage can be summed up in just four words – production, enormous – quality, excellent. The 1990 Vintage has probably favoured not so much the very early starting quintas, but those whose grapes were picked from the third week of September onwards; however, overall quality promises to be good to excellent." 29 October 1990.

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