1968 Wine and Port Vintage

Vintage Summary and Recommendations:
Welcome to Vintage Wine and Port's 1968 wine page. Read on for our summary of the 1968 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 1968 vintage for Bordeaux was the product of an extremely wet August and generally bad growing season making the overall quality low. Burgundy also suffered with very little to recommend it. For Italy, 1968 marked another good year and saw the first public release of Sassicaia. Port was also good but few houses declared. Any of these wines would make a fabulous 57 year old wine gift for an Anniversary or birthday.


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

Palmer 1968 Single Harvest Tawny Port

Bodegas Toro Albala 1968 Don Px Seleccion Montilla Moriles

Barbera 19689 Centro Pigiatura Fiore

Chateau Latour 1968 Pauillac Premiere Grand Cru Classe

Sandeman 1968 Vintage Port

 
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Bordeaux: Poor weather throughout the growing and harvest seasons led to a small, low quality, vintage. Most of the 1968 wine produced was consumed within a few years of the vintage and very few examples exist today. Those that still exist are well into decline and are unlikely to be of good drinking.
 
Italian: 1968 was a good year for Italian heavyweight wines such as Barolo and Brunello. Whilst Bordeaux suffered from a poor vintage, 1968 marked somewhat of a renaissance for Italian wines particularly those from Tuscany and Piedmont. 1968 was the vintage that Sassicaia was first offered on the open market.
 
Portugal: Making an excellent wine gift for a birthday or anniversary, 1968 Port wines follow a strong run of vintages in the 1960's. The summer was hot and dry with no rain whatsoever in June and July, and only a little in August and September. The harvest should have produced solid good wines. However, only a few vintage ports (Sandeman) and Single Quinta ports were declared. There are still a few Colheita ports available which are drinking very well but stocks are tiny. These bottles are now very rare!

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