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A vintage wine is, properly speaking, a wine that is made purely, or primarily, from the harvest of a single year’s grapes – in contrast to non-vintage or blended wines, which may incorporate grapes grown over more than a single year. |
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Vintage Wines
First and foremost, winemakers will normally use their best grapes from their top quality vineyards to make a prized vintage wine, and so they are using the best raw materials in the manufacture of the wine. Factors that can affect the quality of the wine include the amount of sunlight and rain that the vines have received over the growing season, the quality of the soil in which the vines grow, and the skill of the winemaker himself, as well as the care the vineyards keepers put into making and fermenting their wines.
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Cheap Top Selling Wines
As any wine drinker knows, great wines can be found at reasonable and affordable prices. If you need access to a wider selection than is available, or simply enjoy the convenience of buying online, you’ll be pleased to find that you can get a great bottle of cheap wine online, delivered to your door. Moreover, online ordering makes it easy to have a case of your favorite cheap wine delivered, typically at a decent discount. Finding a good cheap wine can be a challenge, but armed with information, you’re sure to find a vintage you will enjoy to fill your glass.
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Vintage Wines Up to $50
Obviously, the most important factor when choosing a good wine should be its quality and flavor, and wine enthusiasts are increasingly casting their net wider and wider in recognition of the fact that there are great bottles out there available at relatively reasonable prices.
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Vintage Wines Over $100
The price of vintage wines will vary from year to year, and obviously the younger they are purchased, the better the value you will get. In general, many of the top vintage wines over $100 are from the “Premier Crus” of Bordeaux; the very top wineries, which boast famous names like Chateau Lafite, Chateau Latour, and Chateau Margaux. There are also classic wines such as Chateau Petrus, which typically attract prices of $500 a bottle upon release, going up to $1000 or more for mature bottles that are ready to drink.
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Vintage Wines Over $500
“Ah,” says the dignified old man, leaning back after a particularly good glass of port wine and a great meal. “ 1990. A particularly good year.”We’ve all heard lines like that, whether in person, in books, in movies, or on television. But how many of us know what that even means? How many of us could assume, for instance, that a bottle of wine from the north of the Rhone region in France in the year of 1989 would likely be particularly good, while a bottle from Spanish Catalonia in 1992 might not be up to snuff? How could we even tell?
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