Red Burgundy - 1976
Harvest status: beginning of September.
Quality: grapes with thick skins. A high degree of sugar. Tricky vinification.
Overall quality of the vintage: very good. Fruity wines, sometimes lacking flesh and fat. The best have the potential for ageing. White Burgundy - 1976
Overall quality of the vintage: very good. Very dry and hard wines due to over-ripe grapes. Rather past their best. of the grape.
Red Bordeaux - 1976
Meteorological data: a year of drought.
Harvest status: Dates: September 15th.
Quality: over-ripe grapes.
Overall quality of the vintage: good. Pleasant wines, with sometimes unreliable levels of alcohol. Today most have faded. White Bordeaux - 1976
Harvest status: Dates: end of September.
Quality: ripe grapes.
Overall quality of the vintage: very good. Very pleasant wines, lacking acidity. Syrupy Bordeaux - 1976
Harvest status:
Quality: excellent harvest.
Overall quality of the vintage: very good. Stylish wines. Still good today. Champagne - 1976
Meteorological data: drought. Rain at the beginning of September swelling the already fairly ripe grapes.
Harvest status: Dates: September 1st.
Quality: good.
Overall quality of the vintage: very good. Firm, well structured and still magnificent wines. White Alsace - 1976
Very good year. On the Weinbach estate in Kaysersberg, the sugar concentration in the grapes was so high that a bailiff was called to officially record the figures. "It really was pure honey," recalls Catherine Faller, with a smile.