1974 Wine and Port Vintage

Vintage Summary and Recommendations:

1974 Wine and Port

A short summary of the 1974 Vintage with our top recommendations

Welcome to Vintage Wine and Port's 1974 wine page. Read on for our summary of the 1974 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 1974 vintage was good for Italian Wines and Colheita Ports but challenging for Bordeaux which suffered from cool and wet weather leading to low yields and difficulties with ripening. Any of these wines would make a fabulous 52 year old wine gift for an 1974 Anniversary or birthday.


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

Palmer Port 1974

Quinta da Devesa 50 year old White Port

Corvo 1974

Bodegas Toro Albala 1974 Don Px

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This Year in History: New Year's Day is celebrated as a public holiday for the first time and Sweden wins Eurovision with the Abba song "Waterloo". Olivia Colman, Actress, British actress was born in this year. She who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Queen Anne in the 2018 film The Favourite and was cast as Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix series The Crown.
Top Grossing Movie: Towering Inferno
 
Bordeaux: A massive crop was produced, but the 1974 wines from Bordeaux were hard and tannic and lacked the ripeness of the 1975 vintage. The wines have declined gracefully over the decades and only the top houses will be drinkable nowadays.
 
Italian: A 1974 wine from Italy will make a perfect 51 year old wine gift. Celebrated as a great vintage in Italy at the time, the 1974 vintage is now still considered to be very good. The 1974 vintage produced a large crop, close to the 1964 but with less quality. Summer was hot and dry and a mild autumn allowed the grapes to ripen fully. The wines produced are characterised as being fairly firm and tannic with low acidity but good, rich fruit. The harvest time was very long and lasted through November. Wines produced in this year have reached full maturity but continue to hold.
 
Portugal: The 1974 port vintage produced some excellent single harvest colheita, making a port from this year the ideal 52 year old wine gift for a 52nd birthday or anniversary. For vintage ports it was a moderate year that was not declared by the major port houses; despite a huge crop, very few vintage port wines were bottled from this year and the bottles that were produced are very rare.

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