Château Margaux 1984 - PROMO -10% !
Haut Brion 1984 - PROMO -15% !
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A small vintage for Bordeaux wines, yielding fairly hard, tannic and acidic red Bordeaux wines. Two events explain this: a disrupted flowering in May (coulure of the merlot) and a cyclone (Hortense) that struck the Bordeaux vineyards at the end of September, bringing its rains and winds, and sweeping away the last hopes for the merlot-dominant wines (the wines from the right bank such as the appellations Saint Emilion and Pomerol). The Burgundy wines of 1984 were no more spared: the difficult flowering, August storms, the cold and rains of September having led to millerandage and heavy chaptalization of the wines, making them unattractive.
The harvests of the cabernet sauvignons, having better withstood the conditions, could then take place, but the red wines, although intended for aging (such as the 1984 classified grand cru wines), proved to be quite acidic, austere and tannic (lacking merlot to round them out and lend them charm). Some estates on the Right Bank downgraded their production, and even Château Pétrus produced only 20% of its usual harvest. In Bordeaux Sauternes, 1984 yielded some elegant wines, but the vintage will not remain particularly memorable.
As for Champagne, Rhône Valley wines, Loire wines and Alsace wines, the 1984 vintage is of little interest.
If your choice relates to 1984 wines (a wine ready to drink and to give as an anniversary vintage), please note that the 1984 Bordeaux wines are intensely colored (cabernet sauvignon) but that the weakness of the merlot gives them a tight profile, lacking a little of the undeniable charm found in great Bordeaux wines at full maturity. In other regions, the 1984 vintage is considered weak.
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