1976 Wine and Port Vintage
Vintage Summary and Recommendations:
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The 1976 vintage is remembered as a year of contrasts across Europe, shaped by a long, hot summer that favoured some regions far more than others. In the right hands and with good provenance, the wines of 1976 have matured into elegant, characterful bottles that offer real charm and historical interest. Today, 1976 wines and Ports are a fantastic choice for a 50th anniversary or birthday gift, combining genuine maturity with the significance of a milestone year.
Our Wine Expert currently recommends the following wines for this year:
This Year in History: This Year in History: Fun Fact: The first commercial Concorde flights took off, ushering in supersonic passenger travel. 1976 was also the year of the United States Bicentennial, celebrating 200 years since the Declaration of Independence.
Eurovision Winner: United Kingdom with the song "Save Your Kisses for Me" by Brotherhood of Man
Top Grossing Movie: Rocky
Bordeaux: Bordeaux (including Sauternes) enjoyed a solid vintage, producing wines that emphasised finesse and balance rather than sheer power. Many Left Bank clarets now show classic mature characteristics — cedar, tobacco, leather and gentle dark fruit — while the best examples from leading châteaux have aged gracefully and are drinking well today. In Sauternes, 1976 produced some excellent wines, offering rich honeyed notes and a beautifully developed sweetness that can be especially rewarding at full maturity.
Italian: Italy experienced a more challenging year overall, but top producers and favoured sites still succeeded in crafting wines that reward patient cellaring. At fifty years of age, the best Italian 1976s show savoury, evolved profiles — dried cherry, herbs, leather and earthy complexity — appealing to lovers of fully mature wines rather than youthful fruit.
Portugal: Following the driest winter on record there was a total drought throughout the summer, until the end of August. This resulted in a very low production, however those ports that were produced are exceptionally concentrated and full-bodied. They lack a little freshness but this is understandable given the dry conditions. There are very few bottle aged ports available but the Colheita ports (barrel aged) from this year are excellent. A port from 1976 would make an excellent 50 year old wine gift for a birthday or anniversary.
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Vino da Tavola, 1976
Roffo della Torre - Magniani
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: £59.00
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Kopke
50 Year Tawny Port
98 Points- Wine Advocate
Kopke 50 Year Old Tawny Port
A distinguished wine, representing the pinnacle of aged tawny ports. With five decades of aging, this port offers unparalleled depth and complexity.
Tasting Notes
This 50 Year Old Tawny Port is a rich, complex wine with a deep amber colour and golden-brown rim. Its aroma is rich and complex, with notes of dried fruits, caramel, toffee, butterscotch, roasted nuts, and subtle wood, spice, and citrus zest. The palate is smooth and velvety, with layers of dried fruits, caramel, brown sugar, nutty character, molasses, dark chocolate, and coffee. The finish is long and complex, with lingering flavors of dried fruits, caramel, nuts, and spice. …
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Price: £175.00
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Barbaresco, 1976
Giordano Giovanni
This 1976 Barbaresco displays a brick-garnet core fading to a broad tawny rim, with light sediment typical of a wine at full maturity. The colour signals a wine that has evolved significantly, moving from its original vibrant core to the delicate, transparent nuances of fully developed Nebbiolo.
The nose is refined and tertiary, offering dried rose petals, pot-pourri and autumn leaves as dominant notes. Leather, cigar box, truffle, and earthy forest floor combine with subtle hints of dried red cherry, orange peel, balsamic lift, and a touch of menthol. There is a quiet complexity and elegance, though aromatic intensity is gentle and fragile. …
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Price: £139.00
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Barbaresco, 1976
Bianco Aldo
Barbaresco 1976 – Aldo Bianco
This 1976 Barbaresco shows a pale brick-garnet colour with a broad tawny rim, fully transparent at the edges and likely carrying fine sediment — visual cues of long bottle ageing and the fragile stage of maturity typical of old Nebbiolo. The wine appears delicate yet dignified, with the last echoes of its youthful core still visible.
The nose is distinctly tertiary and perfumed, opening with dried roses, pot-pourri and autumn leaves. Classic notes of tar, leather and cigar box mingle with truffle, dried porcini and sweet spice. Hints of cherry liqueur, blood orange, balsamic tones and a whisper of menthol or anise add lift. …
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Price: £149.00
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Blandys, 1976
Bual Vintage Madeira
150cl Magnum Bottle In Individual Box
96 Points - Wine Spectator
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Blandys 1976 Bual Vintage Madeira is only available in extremely limited quantities, a perfect birthday gift for anyone born in 1976.
Tasting Notes:
Dark amber with golden reflections. The nose has a very complex and characteristic bouquet. Lush with notes of toasted wood, dried fruit, vanilla-like sweet spices, saffron, ripe fruit chutney, dried leaves, and tea. The palate is very rich, smooth, and balanced, medium sweet, with a very long finish leaving notes of chutney and resinous woods such as cedar.
Serving Suggestions:
Serve slightly chilled (14–16°C) to enhance its rich, mellow character. …
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Price: £655.00
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Cabernet, 1976
Rocca Bernarda
This mature Cabernet reveals a restrained, Old World profile shaped by age and careful evolution. The nose is immediately savory, offering dried blackcurrant, stewed plum, and blackberry compote, layered with cedarwood, graphite, and cigar box. With time in the glass, tertiary aromas of dried leaves, forest floor, leather, and gentle balsamic tones emerge, accompanied by hints of bay leaf, black tea, and faded violet. On the palate, the wine is soft and resolved, its once-firm structure now fully mellowed. The fruit has moved into dried and savory territory—black cherry skin, cassis, and prune—supported by subtle earthy notes and a fine mineral edge. …
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Price: £69.00
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Chateau Angelus, 1976
St Emilion Grand Cru Classe
Château Angélus 1976 is a rare mature Saint-Émilion from one of Bordeaux’s most historic estates, offering nearly fifty years of evolution in bottle. The warm, dry 1976 vintage produced richly fruited wines in their youth, and today this Angélus shows the graceful, tertiary complexity that only long ageing can bring. The nose is beautifully developed, with aromas of dried cherries, cedar, leather, old cigar box and subtle earthy spice.
On the palate, the wine is elegant and fully resolved, with softened tannins and a gentle, silky texture. Flavours of dried red fruits, forest floor, tobacco and sweet spice mingle seamlessly, supported by a persistent savoury finish. …
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Price: £245.00
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Chateau Lafite Rothschild, 1976
Pauillac 1er Grand Cru Classe
Château Lafite Rothschild 1976
Vintage & Background
1976 was not one of the most consistent years in Bordeaux, but Lafite Rothschild delivered a standout example — many consider it one of the best Lafites of the 1970s. The growing season had its challenges, yet enough heat and ripeness were achieved to produce a wine that has aged remarkably well.
Appearance & Nose
In the glass the wine shows mature colouring: deep ruby with signs of brick at the rim, and a subtle amber/orange tinge beginning to show at the edges. On the nose expect classic mature Pauillac aromas — dried black fruits (blackcurrant, plum), cedarwood, cigar ash, graphite, hints of leather, mushroom, and tobacco. …
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Price: £695.00
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Chateau Leoville Barton, 1976
St Julien 2me Growth Classification
The 1976 Château Léoville Barton is a fully mature Saint-Julien that reflects the warm, dry conditions of the vintage and the estate’s traditional, Cabernet-driven style. In the glass, it shows a pale garnet-brick colour with a delicate tawny rim, signalling its long evolution.
The nose is soft, mellow, and charmingly old-school, opening with dried redcurrant, cedar, tobacco leaf, and old leather. Secondary notes of forest floor, dried herbs, and a touch of spice emerge with gentle air, offering the complex bouquet only decades of bottle age can bring.
On the palate, the wine is light to medium-bodied, with softened tannins and a silky, mature texture. …
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Price: £135.00
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Chateauneuf du Pape, 1976
Domaine du Grand Tunel - E. Jeune
An outstanding wine still with a deep red colour. This has really strong bouquet with lovely packing in it; there is charm in the soft red fruits, but power and depth in behind, via some tobacco and rum: all comes in a silken air. This is rich on the palate, backed by good structure and tannin to keep it in shape. Very good length.
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Price: £149.00
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Dolcetto, 1976
Salvano Saverio
This mature Dolcetto presents a quietly elegant expression shaped by long bottle age. The bouquet is delicate yet complex, opening with dried cherry, fig skin, and stewed plum, followed by tertiary notes of leather, walnut shell, forest floor, and dried herbs. Subtle oxidative nuances suggest almond skin, balsamic, and old wood.
On the palate, the wine is light to medium-bodied, with fruit fully evolved into the dried spectrum—sour cherry, prune, and cranberry. The structure is gentle, with tannins fully resolved and acidity softened but still providing balance.
Savory elements dominate the mid-palate, revealing tobacco, mushroom, and earthy undertones that speak to its Piedmontese origins. …
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Price: £59.00
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Rioja, 1976
Emperatriz
Wine from Rioja (and Ribera del Duero), aged for at least two years in oak and three years in the bottle, made primarily from the Tempranillo grape. Light and red-brown in colour, with intense vanilla aromas and substantial earthy flavour notes. Significant acidity and medium alcohol.
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Price: £89.00
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Sandeman
50 Year Old Tawny Port
***95 Points- GOLD- Decanter 2023***
Beautiful pale tawny in colour. The 50-Year-Old Tawny is exceptionally pronounced and complex in aroma profile. Intense aromas of dried fruits, roasted walnuts, toffee and spice burst out of the glass. Velvety smooth on the palate, with a bright acidity keeping the decadent flavours on the straight and narrow and all culminating in a deliciously lingering finish.
There are few more iconic images in the world of wine than the ‘Don’, the logo created for the Sandeman family in 1928 by George Massiot Brown. The cape was modelled on the attire worn by university students in Porto, while the wide-brimmed hat was a nod to the family’s presence in Jerez. …
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Price: £289.00
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Taylor Fladgate, 1976
Taylors Vargellas Single Quinta Vintage Port
The impressive 1976 Vargellas is a 50% Opague mature mahogany colour as befits this hot vintage. lots of spice on the nose which is full of cedar wood and plums. on the palate the wine is very attractive. Full bodied, full flavoured with masses of dried fruit. Very tasty. Big aftertaste and a long, full finish. Very, very impressive wine.
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Price: £245.00
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