1972 Wine and Port Vintage
Vintage Summary and Recommendations: A short summary of the 1972 Vintage with our top recommendations 1972 Wine and Port
The 1972 vintage was challenging for both Port and wine production in Europe. In Portugal's Douro Valley, the 1972 vintage was generally not declared by most Port houses.The weather conditions during the growing season were unfavorable, leading to wines that lacked concentration and depth. In Europe, including Italy, the 1972 vintage was also challenging due to adverse weather conditions.The vintage was characterized by a cool and wet growing season, which led to difficulties with grape ripening and resulted in wines that lack depth and concentration.
Our Wine Expert currently recommends the following wines for this year:
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Bordeaux: Bordeaux 1972 wines are generally characterised by having good colour, with dryness and high acidity. However, the style was for early drinking and very few examples exist today. The growing season was difficult with the grape development held back by inclement weather - this did not allow the grapes to fully ripen by harvest time. However, sweet wines from Sauternes and Barsac of this year are very good.
Italian: Only a small crop of 1972 wine was produced in Italy and the wines are now very rare. The growing season was held back by inclement weather in the main Italian wine regions of Piedmont and Tuscany. Tuscany produced a small crop of Brunello and Chianti, generally characterised as having good colour, high acidity and some dryness. The best of the vintage originates from the more southerly regions.
Portugal: A good vintage that was not declared, some vintage port and single quintas were produced in this year. Port wines from 1972 are now fully mature but well stored examples will last for many years more, making them a great 51 year old wine gift for a birthday or anniversary.
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Ryst Dupeyron Armagnac, 1972
Ryst Dupeyron Reserve Joseph Millesime vintage Armagnac
50cl bottle
Includes original orange colour cardboard gift box
This Armagnac Réserve Joseph vintage 1972 with an amber colour will be chocolate in the mouth. Its caramel aromas will reveal themselves magnificently in a balloon glass heated in the palm of your hand. This is a very harmonious eau de vie to enjoy as a digestive.
The Maison Ryst-Dupeyron was founded by Joseph Dupeyron in 1905. He built a family home in the heart of Gascony, to house its elixirs. This has been passed on for five generations and is now in the care of Caroline Ryst
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Price: $219.09 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
São Leonardo by Quinta do Mourao, 1972
Mother Wine 1972 '30 Year' Port
50cl bottle
Golden colour with greenish tones and intense aroma, notes of wood, caramel and walnut.
In the mouth, it is full-bodied and fresh with notes of dried fruit and spices. A very long finish.
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Colheita Port Storage and Serving Advice:
Colheita Port should be stored in a cool and dry place, sheltered from light and temperature fluctuations, and the bottle should remain in an upright position. If stored correctly, Colheita Ports will keep for decades in the bottle. …
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Price: $641.72 USD
Stock: 2 in Stock
Blandys, 1972
Vintage Bual Madeira
75cl Bottle
Tasting Notes
Coppery amber with golden-greenish nuance, a brilliant crystalline. Intense savoury sweet aromas of spices, vanilla, dried fruits, candied apricots and exotic woods. The palate is a rich, medium sweet, with a balanced concentration. The long smooth finish is filled with flavors of candied fruit macerated in brandy, spices, resinous woods such as cedar.
Vinification
Blandy’s Bual 1972 was aged in seasoned American oak casks and as with all the family’s vintages, this wine started its aging process in the warm high attic floors of the lodge in the center of Funchal. …
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Price: $421.33 USD
Stock: 21 in Stock
Blandys, 1972
Vintage Bual Madeira
Half Bottle 37.5cl
Tasting Notes
Coppery amber with golden-greenish nuance, a brilliant crystalline. Aromas of intense sweet spices, vanilla, dried fruits, candied apricots and exotic woods. The palate is a rich, medium sweet, with a balanced concentration. The long smooth finish is filled with flavors of candied fruit macerated in brandy, spices, resinous woods such as cedar.
Vinification
Blandy’s Bual 1972 was aged in seasoned American oak casks and as with all the family’s vintages, this wine started its aging process in the warm high attic floors of the lodge in the center of Funchal. Over the 50 years, the wine passed down from the warmer top floor of the Blandy’s Wine Lodges, the “Sotão de Amendoa”. …
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Price: $206.13 USD
Stock: 9 in Stock
Blandys, 1972
Vintage Bual Madeira
150cl Magnum Bottle
**96/100 Wine Spectator**
Tasting Notes
Coppery amber with golden-greenish nuance, a brilliant crystalline. Aromas of intense sweet spices, vanilla, dried fruits, candied apricots and exotic woods. The palate is a rich, medium sweet, with a balanced concentration. The long smooth finish is filled with flavors of candied fruit macerated in brandy, spices, resinous woods such as cedar.
Vinification
Blandy’s Bual 1972 was aged in seasoned American oak casks and as with all the family’s vintages, this wine started its aging process in the warm high attic floors of the lodge in the center of Funchal. Over the 50 years, the wine passed down from the warmer top floor of the Blandy’s Wine Lodges, the “Sotão de Amendoa”. …
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Price: $706.54 USD
Stock: 2 in Stock
Chateau Margaux, 1972
Margaux 1er Grand Cru Classe High Shoulder Level
From the rare 1972 vintage - The Chateau Margaux still has a good red colour, the wine is a little acidic wine and lacks ripeness. The wine is both light and dry.
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Price: $473.19 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Chianti, 1972
Lodovico e Piero Antinori - BIG MAGNUM 1,75 LITER BOTTLE
Chianti, situated in Tuscany in central Italy, is home to probably the best-known and most iconic of all Italian wines. Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano are primarily made with Sangiovese grape whereas the Vernaccia grape is the basis of the white Vernaccia di San Gimignano.
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Price: $167.24 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Cirò, 1972
Rosado Caparra e Siciliani
The Ciro Rosado has a pale ruby colour. Has an elegant bouquet in which they differ floral and fruity notes: rose, maraschino cherry, red fruit and hints of iodine on a rhubarb and sweet spices. The palate has a right to the body weight in balance and freshness, is intense and soft with a lingering fruity finish.
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Price: $89.45 USD
Stock: 4 in Stock
Cirò, 1972
Rosso Caparra e Siciliani
The Ciro Rosso has a bright ruby red color and transparent. Has an elegant bouquet in which they differ floral and fruity notes: rose, maraschino cherry, red fruit and hints of iodine on a rhubarb and sweet spices. The palate has a right to the body weight in balance and freshness, is intense and soft with a lingering fruity finish and almonds.
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Price: $89.45 USD
Stock: 2 in Stock
Clos Labere, 1972
Sauternes
Sweet Wine
This is a classic Sauternes with a great deal of sweetness, plenty of ripeness, and obvious aromas of toasty, smoky new oak. The wine exhibits finesse and complexity, a style of Sauternes that will have its admirers, particularly among those who like to drink these wines as an aperitif.
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Price: $154.27 USD
Stock: 3 in Stock
Fonseca Port, 1972
Guimaraens Single Quinta Vintage Port
Fonseca has belonged in the first rank of Vintage Port producers since the nineteenth century. Its Vintage Ports are noted for their luscious fruitiness which develops great opulence and complexity with age.
This is a very rare example from the 1972 vintage. This wine has a tawny coloured rim around the outside. The nose is very gummy and thick with orange peel, slightly medicinal. Very reducted on the palate with thick tar, raisins, orange peel.
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Price: $512.08 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Graham's Port, 1972
Single Harvest Colheita Port
The 1972 Single Harvest Tawny Port is made from the very finest wines from the Graham’s vineyards, and is the result of the unique terroir of the Douro Valley and subsequent maturation in Vila Nova de Gaia, that has distinguished Graham’s for almost two centuries.
The 1972 Colheita shows a vivid, rich amber colour, with a suggestion of a green tinge on the rim. On the nose an explosion of multiple aromas, a combination of caramel, nuts, hints of vanilla and cigar box. Massively concentrated in the mouth, these wines have a complex palate revealing honeycomb, exotic spices and crystallised orange peel flavours. …
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Price: $641.72 USD
Stock: 16 in Stock
Graham's Port, 1972
Sale
1972 Single Harvest Colheita Port
450cl Rehoboam Large Format (equivalent to 6 bottles)
Equivalent to 6 regular 75cl bottles.
The 1972 Single Harvest Tawny Port is made from the very finest wines from the Graham’s vineyards, and is the result of the unique terroir of the Douro Valley and subsequent maturation in Vila Nova de Gaia, that has distinguished Graham’s for almost two centuries.
The 1972 Colheita shows a vivid, rich amber colour, with a suggestion of a green tinge on the rim. On the nose an explosion of multiple aromas, a combination of caramel, nuts, hints of vanilla and cigar box. Massively concentrated in the mouth, these wines have a complex palate revealing honeycomb, exotic spices and crystallised orange peel flavours. …
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Price: $2,197.42 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Grignolino, 1972
Mascarello Natale fu Maurizio
The Grignolino wines have a light ruby red color, tending to orange with aging. Have a characteristic odor and delicate in the mouth are dry, slightly tannic, bitter pleasant, with a characteristic aftertaste.
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Price: $115.38 USD
Stock: 47 in Stock
Janneau, 1972
Armagnac 1972 Vintage (Includes presentation box as shown)
The great vintages or millésimés of Janneau are the expression of a single year, most commonly of a single cask. Produced exclusively with the single distillation process, they are the quintessence of this precious distillate aged over the years. Each vintage expresses its unique character. These vintages are bottled at the alcohol level in which they naturally come out of the cask. There is a sharp 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. …
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Price: $257.99 USD
Stock: 2 in Stock
Verduzzo, 1972
Podere del Sole - Savorgnano al Torre
Very forward nose of leather and cherries, liquorice wild strawberries, ripe plums and pencil .The palate is very nice balance of sweet fruit and acidity
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Price: $115.38 USD
Stock: 4 in Stock
Chateau Pavie, 1972
St Emilion, Premier Grand Cru Classe
The 1972 Chateau Pavie is fully mature and like so many wines from this vintage is in steep decline. One note found indicates that wine was way past its prime, but in fact it was still drinkable. In the bouquet chocolate, soy, celery, coffee and rust. On the palate also some cocoa and drying.(Cellar Tracker 2016 ).
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Price: $193.17 USD
Stock: Out of Stock
Taylor's Port, 1972
Quinta De Vargellas Vintage Port
A rare vintage port from 1972.
Little Vintage Port was made in 1972 - the weather having made life unusually tricky. Taylor's - the masters of wine-making - produced a rather fine single quinta wine in the Quinta de Vargellas 1972. Mellow and pale, nose of spiced rose petals, palate of raspberries and dried red berries it is a delicious glassful.
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Price: $382.44 USD
Stock: Out of Stock