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You are definitely a glass half full guy, which is a good thing!
I have no recollection of drinking a 1974 Bordeaux, and your note made me laugh (“I kind of liked it”).
I had maybe 4 or 5 red Bordeaux 1974 - and I didn’t like a single one. Leo Barton was kind of drinkable but no real pleasure, L’Angelus (bought in St.Emilion) was dead, as was a Pape Clement, VieuxChCertan was far too old, acidic and sl. oxidized - and there was another bottle I can t remember.
Also no luck with 2 Burgundies, one a Faiveley NSG.
2-3 S.Rhones were not bad at all, although not great.
A few 74 Rieslings were ok, but nothing you must have.
I bought a few bottles of 74 Lafleur at auction a decade ago for next to nothing. Best of a limited number of 74s I’ve had to date. While on the lean side, they were actually pretty impressive.
As I was drinking it, I thought “this is a solid Jeff Leve 63 pointer”. To me it was a Weinberg 1 on the binary scale. We finished the bottle.
1974 had only one thing going for it - it wasn’t quite as bad (IMHO) as the 72 and 73 vintages. The fact that you were able to find some positive things to say says more about you than the wine - you must be a forgiving person looking for good things.
And to be honest, if I were to come across a forgotten bottle from a poor vintage, I would likely do the same as you - I’d have to at least taste it so I could decide whether the sink or the stew-pot was the appropriate final resting place for it.