Any "Great" Wines from 1976 Still Drinking Well Today?

WINE TALK
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Too young to know what was great in '76 (if any), so appreciate the recs. Looking not for a good but great '76 bottle for my birth year, under $400. I don’t discriminate, open to any region around the world. Thx!

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Mosel Riesling. One of the “legendary” vintages.

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'76 Sauternes is drinking well. A very sweet year, low on botrytis. D’Yquem is out of range, so Climens, Coutet, Rieussec are possibilities.

P Hickner

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RIESLINGSSSSSSS
champagne too

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I’ve had some good burgs from 76. Nice thing was the vintage is pretty structured so they’re still kicking.

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76 Prum Beerenauslese

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76 BV GDL if you want a cab

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Rioja, Germans, Sauternes, champagne

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Be very picky with '76 Germans. Like a modern day '06. Way too much botrytis. I much prefer 1975. More racy, less botrytis.

1976 Leoville Las Cases is not by any means profound but I think it is an excellent bottle of Bordeaux.

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A warm year but plenty of 76 Burgs are very much alive and interesting today.

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German Riesling (Prum and Egon Muller X 10, Auslese for me please!) [winner.gif]

For Red

California Cab (Heitz Martha’s?)

Rioja (Lopez would be safe)

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Rioja. You can even still find them for less than fortune.

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76 Cheval Blanc
76 CVNE Imperial and Vina Real Gran Reservas (some floating around in recent Acker auctions)

And I echo the Burg suggestions. It was a hot vintage but they are showing great… 76 Rousseau Beze may be the best wine I had last year. and if it was as hot a vintage as people say it was, all of a sudden I am not so scared about all of the 03s I have stored away.

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Taittinger Comte and a, I think, Dr. Loosen Auslese were fantastic last year to celebrate my buddies bday.

Bonneau du Martray CC was very good the year before.
A Momipex Essencia was “ok” but fun to try this year.

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Both Krug and Dom are spot on if you can find them.

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The nice thing about '76 Burgundy and 1976 in Germany was - they were big vintages, with early acclaim - so there is still quite a bit of it around - provenance is the key though -

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I’ve had great bottles of all 3 of the Lopez de Heredia GRs from '76 – Bosconia, Tondonia Red, and Tondonia Blanco.

Michael

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76 DRC Richebourg (magnum) was still quite young in character when I tried it.

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76 Grange is a beauty.

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a fair bit beyond the $400 limit, though. as a '76er myself, I’ve always wanted to try this wine, but have never been able to stomach the $1k tariff it carries here in the US.