1995 vintage guide for Red South Africa
1995 vintage guide for Red South Africa. A low-yielding vintage produced good-quality, well-structured wines.
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1995 vintage guide for Red South Africa. A low-yielding vintage produced good-quality, well-structured wines.
1995 vintage guide for Italy Tuscany. An excellent vintage with noteworthy wines in all districts. Low quantities though.
1995 vintage guide for Italy Piedmont. An over-hyped vintage at the time, the wines now seem lacking in fruit.
1995 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. A big vintage of classic wines.
1995 vintage guide for Oregon Pinot Noir. The first in a run of three wet harvests yielded agreeable yet light wines.
A poor year in the Barossa but very good in New South Wales and Western Australia
1995 vintage guide for Washington State Cabernet Sauvignon. A mixed vintage but with much good Cabernet.
Vintage guide for Red Rhone 1994. Good wines emerged from Hermitage, Cornas, and Saint Joseph. The southern Rhone enjoyed its best vintage since 1990.
1994 vintage guide for Red South America
1994 vintage guide for Red South Africa. A variable year but some good Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinotage and Shiraz was made.
1994 vintage guide for Italy Tuscany. A good year for Brunello, Vino Nobile and stylish Chianti Classico.
1994 Port vintage guide
1994 vintage guide for Italy Piedmont. Prolonged rain caused serious problems although a few producers still made good wines.
1994 vintage guide for Oregon Pinot Noir. A smaller crop than usual produced rather jammy, easy to drink wines.
An excellent vintage in the Margaret River; South Australia also produced some classic wines
1994 vintage guide for Spain Rioja. Splendid year with intense, slow maturing wines of great colour and depth of flavour.
1994 vintage guide for Washington State Cabernet Sauvignon. A vintage which produced bold, concentrated, full-bodied wines.
1994 vintage guide for Washington State Merlot. The crop was small but quality was excellent.
Vintage guide for Red Rhone 1993. The reds were for the most part hard and thin, but the vintage was slightly better in the south.
1993 vintage guide for Red South America.