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Vintage 1956
The 1956 wine vintage in Portugal was a difficult, below-average, and highly challenging year, severely compromised by the same brutal, historic winter freeze that gripped the rest of Western Europe. In the Douro Valley, the extreme cold stunned the vines, and the subsequent cool, rainy summer prevented the remaining grapes from achieving optimal sugar concentration or phenolic ripeness. Consequently, the vintage was a total write-off for Vint...
