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Vuosikerta 1968
The 1968 wine vintage in Italy was a highly disappointing, damp, and poor year across primary regions like Piedmont and Tuscany, where severe autumn rainstorms bloated and rotted the grapes right before harvest. This hostile weather rendered standard Barolos and Chiantis light, thin, and aggressively acidic, causing virtually all standard bottles to fade past their prime decades ago. However, the vintage achieved immortal, legendary status bec...
