VINTAGES

Subcategories

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  young wines

  wines to keep in your cellar 3 to 5 years

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  Mature wines

  Depending on the producer, the vintage and the region, the definition of  mature wines ranges from 10 to 100 years.

  The aromas in a mature wine are blackberries, cherry, plum and cassis fade while notes of tobacco, truffle, earth, smoke, cedar wood, cigar box and forest floor begin to emerge. This happens as the wine shits from its youth to maturity, when the initial, primary fruit and grapey characteristics shift to the wines secondary or tertiary profile.

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  Anniversary wines

  wines for anniversary vintages

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  Timeless wines

  The greatest wines in the world. Wines from the best vintages.

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  Wines to age

  Wines from the best vintages. To keep several years in your cellars.

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  Other vintages

  The following is a generalisation with regard to the overoll harvest of the region of Burugndy and Bordeaux. For this reason, it is possible, for a vintage reputed average or mediocre, to find at certaine estates very good, if no excellent bottles that particular year.