Ronald Lewis is a Oenologist with ten years of experience in his field.
Wines are produced by allowing grapes to ferment. Vintage wines are prime quality wines that have a particular flavor owing to the process of making mother using grapes that were all grown in a particular year. Over the years this term has come to denote wine that is old and very valuable for its unique taste.
You need to choose the right vintage for celebrating an important occasion to bring out the nature of the celebration. How do you choose vintage? You can choose them based on the brand names as wines from certain wine houses are of a finer quality than others and you can choose them according to the years of making. The older the wine is the better the taste and quality.
Here’s a look at the top ten vintages.
• St. Julien/Pauillac – Choose bottles from the years 1990, 1996 and 2000.
• St. Emilion – Choose bottles from the years 1990, 1998 and 2000.
• Châteauneuf du Pape - Choose bottles from the years 1998 and 2000 wines.
• California North Coast Cabernet Sauvignon - Choose bottles from the year 2001
• White Burgundy – Choose bottles from the year 1996
• Champagne – Choose bottles from the year 1978
• Southern Rhône, Châteauneuf du Pape – Choose bottles from the year 1978
• Washington’s Cabernet Sauvignon – Choose bottles from the year 1987
• Spain, Rioja - Choose bottles from the year 1989
• Italy: Tuscany – Choose bottles from the year 1985
One interesting aspect of all vintage wines is that they have a small quality of wine in them, which does not belong to the year stated in the win label. This is allowed by laws as such. For example the wine produced by countries belonging to the European Union, include 85% of wine produced in the vintage year and the remainder is wine produced in some other year. If you want a vintage that has more of vintage wine quantity than wine produced in the same year, you need to look for wine from countries, which have mostly vintage year wine in the bottle for example, Russia.
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