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For the red Bordeaux, it was a good year. The wines were fine, with notes of mushrooms and truffles, bouqueted, quite light and with a rather rapid evolution, although marked by tannins.

For the Burgundies, it is a satisfactory vintage with fine, light wines possessing a lovely bouquet of red fruits.

Best wines of the 1940 vintage:

Extraordinary wines: Pink Muscat Massandra 1940, Puig-Parahy 1940 Rancio;

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