1965 Wine and Port Vintage
Vintage Summary and Recommendations: A short summary of the 1965 Vintage with our top recommendations 1965 Wine and Port
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The 1965 vintage for both Bordeaux and Burgundy was fairly abysmal, blighted by bad weather. Whereas Italy, produced some very good age-worthy wines. Port went undeclared but some nice colheitas were made and could still be drinking well now. Any of these wines would make a fabulous 60 year old wine gift for an Anniversary or birthday.
Our Wine Expert currently recommends the following wines for this year:
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Bordeaux: 1965 Bordeaux Wines are generally considered to have produced a poor vintage due to wet weather. It is unlikely that anything other than the first growths will have stood the test of time.
Italian: Whilst Bordeaux suffered from poor weather, Piedmont and Tuscany produced an abundant crop of long-lived wines that still make good drinking today.
Portugal: Port wines from 1965 make a great wine gift, whether for a birthday or anniversary. Ports of this year were shaped by a hot dry summer, with a little welcome sporadic rain. In general they are rich and powerful port wines with burnt coffee bean tawny characteristics typical of a hot vintage. The vintage was not declared by the major port houses who were looking ahead to the glorious 66 vintage, and there are very few single quintas port around, however there are some outstanding colheita ports available such as the highly recommended 1965 Taylors Single Harvest Port - (link above).
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Taylor Fladgate, 1965
Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port High shoulder level- Rewaxed capsule
The 1965 Taylor Fladgate Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port is a remarkable single-quinta vintage port from one of the most iconic producers in the Douro Valley. Renowned for their dedication to excellence, Taylor Fladgate’s Quinta de Vargellas bottlings showcase the unique terroir and exceptional quality of this historic vineyard.
The Terroir of Quinta de Vargellas
Quinta de Vargellas is Taylor Fladgate’s flagship vineyard, situated in the remote eastern reaches of the Douro Valley. Known for its schist soils and steep, terraced slopes, the estate produces ports with extraordinary depth, complexity, and longevity. …
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Price: £425.00
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Taylor Fladgate, 1965
Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port Rewaxed
The 1965 Taylor Fladgate Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port is a remarkable single-quinta vintage port from one of the most iconic producers in the Douro Valley. Renowned for their dedication to excellence, Taylor Fladgate’s Quinta de Vargellas bottlings showcase the unique terroir and exceptional quality of this historic vineyard.
The Terroir of Quinta de Vargellas
Quinta de Vargellas is Taylor Fladgate’s flagship vineyard, situated in the remote eastern reaches of the Douro Valley. Known for its schist soils and steep, terraced slopes, the estate produces ports with extraordinary depth, complexity, and longevity. …
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Price: £395.00
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Taylor Fladgate, 1965
1965 Taylors Single Harvest Port
Includes Taylor's presentation gift box
Taylors 1965 Very Old Single Harvest Port is presented in a classic Taylor’s frosted bottle, and packaged in a high quality beech-wood box.
During its five decades of ageing in oak casks, this wine has taken on an attractive pale mahogany colour with olive amber highlights. On the nose the wine displays fine oaky aromas and complex spicy, nutty, cigar box notes against a warm mellow background of butterscotch and molasses. The smooth velvety palate is lifted by a crisp acidity which gives the wine an attractive freshness in spite of its age. The finish is immensely long with rich, spicy, black pepper flavours lingering on the palate. …
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Price: £395.00
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Taylor Fladgate, 1965
Late Bottled Vintage Port
Late Bottled Vintage port is from a single year. The wine ages 4-6 years in old oak casks (opposed to Vintage that ages 2-3). LBV fills the gap between the rubies and the vintage ports since a Ruby Port should be drunk quite young and a great Vintage Port may need 15 to 20 years to really open up and show its splendour. This led to the idea in the 1960s to age the wine 4 to 6 years in large casks before bottling it.
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Price: £265.00
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