1942 Wine and Port Vintage
Bordeaux: The 1942 vintage produced good quality wines during a difficult harvest under wartime conditions. France was exceedingly fortunate in the matter of weather during the war. Never, certainly, in the last half century have the French vineyard districts known a comparable succession of dry summers or a higher average of good or creditable vintage years.
Portugal: This year was, despite WWII, declared by some shippers such as Graham's. Production was small due to continued post-war restrictions, but those wines which have been cared for are still drinking well now. These would make an excellent 80 year old wine gift for a birthday or anniversary this year.
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6 products found.
Armagnac, 1942
Marquis de Montesquiou Bas Armagnac 1942 70cl. 46% vol. (top shoulder; wax seal)
Price: $1,530.87 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Chateau Lafite Rothschild, 1942
Pauillac Grand Cru Classe, Bordeaux
Mature mahogany colour, a little cloudy. Plenty of glycerine, unctuous and creamy port like texture, but without the sweetness, which one could expect given that 1948 wasn’t a very ripe vintage. It kept getting better in the glass.
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Price: $1,530.87 USD
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Feuerheerd Port, 1942
Vintage Port, DOC Douro Unlabelled
Feuerheerd’s was founded in 1815, by the German trader Dietrich Matthias Feuerheerd, who established his business in Oporto. In 1926 the company was sold to the Barros family and in 2007 to Quinta D. Matilde – Vinhos, Lda which is owned by some members of the Barros family. Feuerheerd’s became famous over the years for the quality of its wines, especially of its Vintage Port.
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Price: $1,082.50 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Graham's Port, 1942
Vintage Port, DOC Douro In neck, badly chipped capsule, unlabelled
Declared by some shippers, despite the war, and in some cases declared and bottled in 1945 to celebrate Victory. First Vintage to be bottled exclusively in Portugal, rather than shipped in cask as was customary.
Little known, and production was small due to continued post-war restrictions, but well-cellared wines are still a pleasure.
James Suckling
critic
Vintage Port (book, Suckling, 1990)
source
1990
tasting note year
This is a silky, classy, elegant, mature Vintage Port with a complex character of fruit on the nose and palate. Medium red with a lighter edge, delicate fresh raspberry and currant aromas, medium-bodied, with silky, elegant fruit flavours, medium tannins and a very sweet finish. …
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Price: $1,915.19 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Janneau, 1942
Armagnac 1942 Vintage
The 1942 Janneau Armanac is the expression of a single year and has a unique character associated with the year and the cask in which it has been stored. These vintages are bottled at the alcohol level in which they naturally come out of the cask. There is a wonderful contrast between the sweet and sour flavours of wood, amplified by the strong alcoholic degree. Rich palate feeling the alcohol and the concentration of dry plums, spicy with persistent flavour of rancio and of spices, but round, soft and long in the finish. The tannins are very present, but full-bodied and round.
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Price: $1,274.66 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Baron de Sigognac, 1942
Armagnac in wooden case
This rare 1942 vintage Armagnac is only available in strictly limited quantities.
Armagnac is the oldest spirit in the world, used as a medicine in former times it has been distilled and appreciated since 1411. The Owners of Baron de Sigognac, The Guasch family, have been in Gascony since the 12th century. They have owned the château at Bordeneuve since 1974 and are one of the region's largest courtier and negociant operations.
Once Armagnac is distilled the colourless spirit is aged in 420 litre oak barrels. It is here, in barrel, that the Armagnac leaches vanillins and tannins from the toasted oak which lend the spirit colour and flavour. …
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Price: $1,088.90 USD
Stock: Out of Stock