1949 Wine and Port Vintage
Vintage Summary and Recommendations: Welcome to Vintage Wine and Port's 1949 wine page. Read on for our summary of the 1949 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!
Capping off what had been a superb decade for Bordeaux, 1949 didn’t disappoint, counting Robert Parker among its fans. In some cases, 1949 was the best of the late '40s Bordeaux, and it was also very good for Italy – some brilliant Barolo was produced that should still be drinking well today.
Our Wine Expert currently recommends the following wines for this year:
This Year in History: Fun Fact: Laurence Olivier's film Hamlet (1948) becomes the first British film to win a 'Best Picture' Oscar.
Top Grossing Movie: Samson and Delilah
Bordeaux: The finest 1949 wines are still in full blossom, displaying remarkable richness and concentration. This is one of the quartet of remarkable vintages of the late 1940's - '45, '47, '48 and '49. Renowned wine critic Robert Parker states that this is the greatest of the four vintages possessing greater balance, harmony, and fruit than the 1945's and more complexity than the 1948's. In short the wines are magnificent!
Italian: 1949 wine exhibits a good vintage for most of the Italian regions. The long-lived Barolos are still drinking well today.
Portugal: A poor year for the Oporto ports.
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Chateau Haut Brion, 1949
Pessac-Leognan First Growth Classification
Level low shoulder - good but bin soiled label
Château Haut-Brion’s vineyard is located in the commune of Pessac, just a few miles southwest of Bordeaux’s city center. It belongs to the Pessac-Léognan appellation, to the north of the Graves wine-growing region. Château Haut-Brion is the only wine to be both First Growth from the 1855 classification and Classified Growth of the Graves.
Approximately 2,000 years ago, the virtues of these tiny quartz pebbles known as “gravels” were discovered. The earliest written mention of a wine that was specifically identified as being produced from these soils can be traced back to 1521.
When he purchased Château Haut-Brion in 1935, Clarence Dillon restored it to its former glory and to the elite circle of the most legendary wines in the world. …
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Price: $1,057.85 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Salento, 1949
Rosso Bianco, Ruffino, Puglia
Sweet White fortified wine
Salento is in the region of Puglia on the heel of Italy. The Ruffino is a fortified wine made predominantly from the primitivo grape. The wine has a liquorice and spice bouquet, a medium body and a long alcoholic finish.
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Price: $464.39 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Rioja, 1949
CVNE, Imperial (Vintage Illegible/faded)
The Compania Vinicola del Norte was founded in 1879 by two brothers from Bilbao. Four generations later the firm is still managed by the same family. CVNE still sits on its original site in the Barrio de la Estacion in Haro.
The Imperial winery is a small and unique independent artisanal winery within the original CVNE facility in Haro, where the company was founded. This has been one of Spain’s finest wines since 1920 and is only produced in years of exceptional harvests in Rioja: Imperial.
The winery’s flagship wine was ranked the world’s best wine in 2013 by the prestigious American magazine Wine Spectator, becoming the first Spanish wine to receive this accolade. …
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Price: $392.54 USD
Stock: Out of Stock