Wine 2019
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Experience wine from 2019 for the quality-conscious connoisseur
Vintage 2019 already stands as a modern classic in the world of wine, where a true wine 2019 offers a perfect harmony between power and elegance. Globally, the growing season was dominated by a warm and sunny summer, which gave winegrowers fully ripe grapes with thick skins and a remarkable fruit concentration. At the same time, crucial drops in temperature and cool nights in late summer helped preserve the grapes’ natural acidity. This created an exceptional result with polished tannins and a lively freshness, making the bottles incredibly charming in their youth, while also giving them a fantastic ability to continue maturing beautifully in the cellar.
Why you should consider a 2019 wine
When you bring home a bottle from this acclaimed vintage, you get a wine that bridges intensity and a long lifespan, just as certain older vintages such as wine from 2009 can also do. The fortunate weather conditions gave winegrowers optimal conditions for a slow ripening of the grapes. This has created a string of very special qualities that you will experience recurring across the great wine countries.
Exceptional balance: The grapes reached perfect ripeness with a slightly elevated alcohol level, which is kept in wonderful balance by a crisp and well-preserved natural acidity.
Silky-soft tannins: Thanks to the long growing season, the tannins in especially the red grapes were able to ripen fully. This leaves a soft and polished sensation in the mouth without any form of unwanted bitterness.
Concentrated taste: In several places, the weather led to smaller grape sizes, which gave a higher proportion of skin in relation to juice and created deep, colourful and very flavour-intense drops in the glass.
Great ageing potential: The harmonious meeting between rich fruit and a marked acid structure creates a strong foundation for both the red and white variants to develop through decades of ageing.
Complex white wines: For the light grapes, the sun helped build a beautiful phenolic depth, while the cool harvest period preserved the necessary freshness to secure the wine over time.
Prominent regions for vintage 2019
Although many parts of the world produced excellent results in this very year, there are specific geographical areas where the harvest was extraordinary. Different climatic influences have left their unique imprint on the individual wine regions, giving you a broad and fascinating palette of taste experiences to explore.
French classics from 2019
In France, the winegrowers in both Bordeaux and Burgundy had to deal with changeable weather with spring frost and significant heatwaves in the summer months. This led to a generally lower yield than usual, but the quality of the harvested fruit was exceptionally high in return. What was lacking in volume was more than amply compensated for by enormous concentration and depth in the remaining grapes.
For Bordeaux, this resulted in a classic red expression that pampers the palate with rich fruit notes, soft tannins and a refreshing acidity that creates a beautiful balance with the alcohol. In Burgundy, the warm and dry conditions produced deeply expressive and velvety interpretations of Pinot Noir, as well as extraordinarily rich and complex white wines that already now exude great character.
Italian wines with great potential
Italy experienced an extremely well-balanced season, which has cemented this vintage as an absolute reference year in the country’s most prestigious areas. In Piedmont, the classic Nebbiolo-based bottles shine with a fabulous purity in the fruit, beautifully supported by firm yet fine-grained tannins and a lively acid structure that promises incredibly well for the future.
As we move further south to Tuscany, the favourable climate likewise allowed winemakers to create harmonious and precise results. Here, you encounter great wines with lively notes of red cherries and wild strawberries, elegantly interwoven with complex layers of spice and minerality. Both regions have given us drops with a solid backbone and formidable ageing potential.
Exciting overseas favourites
If we turn our gaze beyond Europe’s borders, California’s Napa Valley offered a classic and almost perfect growing season. A wet beginning to spring was replaced by a mild and stable summer, which gave the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes the necessary calm to build incredible structural harmony. Here you can look forward to dark, concentrated fruit in beautiful interplay with a springy acidity, which together create a very pure expression.
In the southern hemisphere, the picture was more varied due to extreme weather phenomena. While certain parts of Australia struggled with intense heat that particularly pressured white wine yields, South Africa benefited from welcome rain after a longer period of drought, which yielded extremely elegant wines. At the same time, New Zealand delivered exceptionally well-balanced and aromatic results thanks to stable temperatures throughout the season.
How to select exactly the right bottle
With a wide-ranging selection of historical bottles, it can sometimes feel like a task to find exactly the wine that best matches your personal taste. To make your decision process easier, you can follow these simple steps, which safely guide you toward exactly the right choice.
- Define the occasion: Start by considering when the wine is to be enjoyed. Should it be opened for a special dinner in the near future, or are you looking for an investment that can rest safely in the cellar for several decades to develop even more complexity?
- Identify your preferred style: Feel whether you prefer a powerful and structured expression with pronounced tannins, or whether your heart beats more for bright, elegant and fruit-driven profiles with a high degree of freshness.
- Filter by region and country: Use the sorting options to dive into the specific geographical areas you love most. If you have a fondness for classic European virtues, you can easily exclude the overseas alternatives and focus your search.
- Read the details about the wine: Explore the specific descriptions on the individual products. Here you get an exciting insight into the wine’s notes, the optimal drinking window and the unique details that make this very producer or vineyard something truly special.
Optimal storage at Bottles With History
When you acquire mature and historical vintages, the wine’s provenance and correct storage are absolutely crucial for the final taste experience. At Bottles With History, we take this responsibility very seriously. Every single bottle in our range rests under strictly controlled conditions, where temperature, humidity and darkness are carefully adjusted to ensure the wine’s optimal development and preservation. Our specialists handle all products with the greatest care, so you can have full confidence that the contents are in absolutely top condition when they leave our facilities. Older bottles such as wine from 1999 especially require extra attention.
We take great pride in delivering exceptional and attentive customer service, which is clearly reflected in our high TrustScore and the many positive responses from passionate wine lovers. To ensure that your selected bottle arrives in perfect condition and without unnecessary delays, we offer next-day delivery. This minimises the time in transit, and you can safely look forward to enjoying a magnificent taste experience, whether you are shopping to expand the collection or to complete an upcoming event.
Preparation and enjoyment of your wine 2019
When you receive your 2019 wine, it is important to let it rest upright for a few days to recover from transport, so that any natural sediment has time to settle at the bottom of the bottle. As the red wines from this vintage are still relatively young, they will reward you for being decanted one to two hours before serving. This gentle aeration softens the firm tannins and allows the many complex fruit aromas to unfold fully, without the contents losing their fresh character. Also remember to serve the powerful red variants at a lightly chilled temperature of around 15 to 18 degrees, as this greatly highlights the wine’s silky-soft structure and prevents the alcohol from seeming dominant.
