1970 Vintage wines

1970 wines: France - Bordeaux

A great vintage for Bordeaux, rated four stars from Michael Broadbent and described as, 'A highly important vintage in many ways: Its fine quality and its timing provided a jump start to the wine boom...' Ideal weather conditions led to a successful harvest and the production of great wines with excellent ageing potential.

Château Calon Segur 1970 (75cl)

Saint Estephe, 3eme Cru Classé (Third Growth)

Condition: Great with level at Very Top Shoulder and good, clean label.

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Price: £86.81 (Including VAT at 20%)

Château Cissac 1970 & 2005 (2 x 75cl)

AOC Haut Medoc, Cru Bourgeois

On bottle each of Château Cissac 1970 and 2005 presented in a double wooden gift box.

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Price: £86.81 (Including VAT at 20%)

1970 wines: France - Burgundy

Corton Grancey, Louis Latour 1970 (75cl)

Condition: Excellent with level at 3cm from base of cork and great colour. Slightly bin-soiled label with one or two minor nicks/tears though nothing that detracts from the overall appeal of this great bottle (please see Large Image). A superb gift for a Burgundy lover!

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Price: £127.66 (Including VAT at 20%)

1970 wines: France - Rhône

Gigondas, Paul Jaboulet Aine 1970 (75cl)

Condition: Levels at 5cm - 6.5cm from base of cork, labels foxed and cellar stained, though all details are clearly legible.

Note: Whilst the levels for this wine are not ideal, the colour is good with no signs whatsoever of excessive ageing. We have tried a number of vintage wines from Jaboulet and have never been disappointed - but then they do produce the best wines in the Rhone (and hold an auction record with the 1961 Hermitage La Chapelle which sold for over £10,000 per bottle). Expect a fair amount of sediment - we suggest the wine is laid for 48 hours or more to allow this to settle.

**£10.00 DISCOUNT** (was £58.75)

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Price: £49.79 (Including VAT at 20%)

Gigondas "Clos de la Moutte", Pierre Veyrat 1970 (75cl)

Level into neck, slightly stained label with small tear (see Large Image).

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Price: £61.56 (Including VAT at 20%)

1970 wines: Spain

Marques de Murrieta Ygay Reserva 1970 (75cl)

Condition: Level at Top Shoulder with clean label - some small tears/nicks (see Large Image).

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Price: £90.89 (Including VAT at 20%)

1970 wines: France - White

Château Gilette, Creme de Tete 1970 (75cl)

AOC Sauternes

Condition: Excellent with level into neck and good label.

NOTE: Château Gilette is unique amongst Sauternes in that they age their wines for many years, sometimes decades in vats before they are bottled. Gilette is, without doubt, one of the finest made wines in Sauternes despite the fact that it is not classified. In the Bordeaux Book, 3rd Edition (Jan 1998), Robert Parker said, "The 1970 has a deep, rich golden colour and a big, spicy bouquet of buttery apricot-scented fruit, is full-bodied and amazingly fresh and youthful for its age, and will probably keep for another 15 - 25 years ....

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Price: £178.73 (Including VAT at 20%)

1970 wines: Germany (white)

Franz Karl Schmitt Niersteiner Kranzberg Christwein-Eiswein-Riesling Auslese 1970 (75cl)

Condition: Superb levels, labels good, though slightly bin-soiled.

Note: Eiswein (or Ice Wine) is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape must to be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine. With ice wines, the freezing happens before the fermentation, not afterwards. Unlike the grapes from which other dessert wines, such as Sauternes, Tokaji, or Trockenbeerenauslese, are made, ice wine grapes should not be affected by Botrytis or 'noble rot', at least not to any great degree. Only healthy grapes keep in good shape until the opportunity arises for an ice wine harvest, which in extreme cases can occur after the New Year, on a northern hemisphere calendar. This gives ice wine its characteristic refreshing sweetness balanced by high acidity.

Due to the labour-intense and risky production process resulting in relatively small amounts of wine, ice wines are generally expensive.

Auslese (literal meaning 'selected harvest') is the German term for a late harvest wine and is a riper category than Spätlese . The grapes are picked from selected very ripe bunches in the autumn (late November-early December), and have to be hand picked. Generally Auslese wine can be made in only the best harvest years that have been sufficiently warm. Rheingau winemaker Schloss Johannisberg is generally credited with discovering Auslese wine in 1787.

Price: £459.58 (Including VAT at 20%)

1970 Vintage Port

Dow's Vintage Port 1970 (75cl)

Condition: Level at Very Top Shoulder/Base of Neck with good, clean label.

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Price: £91.40 (Including VAT at 20%)

Rebello Valente Vintage Port 1970 (75cl)

Condition: Superb level (Into Neck), though label has several nicks and small tears (see Large Image).

ONE BOTTLE ONLY

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Price: £86.81 (Including VAT at 20%)

Gift Packing for your Wine - Single Bottles

For £4.95, your wine can be presented in a superb solid wooden box with attractive 'wood wool' packaging. The box is packed in a taylor-made bubble bag and white cardboard outer for safe carriage. We can also include a greetings message at no extra cost (please provide details under 'Enter any special delivery instructions' at checkout).

Price: £4.94 (Including VAT at 20%)

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