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Port Vintage Report: Exceptional Vintage, very delicate. All companies declared production. Still very good in 1978, according to Ben Howkins. In July, according to Ernest Cockburn, news from the Douro was alarming, there being the anticipation of a late and very small vintage due to phylloxera. Unstable weather in July and August, but the harvests, begun in mid-September, took place in excellent weather. However, at Cima Corgo, very scarce production, half that of the previous year. Many landlords decided not to cultivate their vines.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux: Harvest began September 19th. Very good quality wines. Often described as the last pre-Phylloxera vintage in the Médoc (although the first reported instance of a Phylloxera infection came in the southern Rhône in 1866 and this was also the first year that laws officially sanctioning grafting of vines onto American rootstock were passed in France, although not in Bordeaux for another three years). Ulysse Gayon was appointed professor of chemistry at the Faculté des Sciences in Bordeaux, where he would develop the Bordeaux mixture for treating down mildew.

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The best wines of the 1878 vintage

Name Tb Producer Location
1 Château Latour 100 Château Latour Bordeaux, France
2 Château Smith Haut Lafitte 100 Château Smith Haut Lafitte Bordeaux, France
3 d'Yquem 97 Château d'Yquem Bordeaux, France
4 Château Léoville Poyferré 96 Château Léoville Poyferré Bordeaux, France
5 Marques de Riscal Reserva 96 Marqués de Riscal Rioja, Spain
6 Lafite-Rothschild 95 Château Lafite-Rothschild Bordeaux, France
7 Port Vintage 94 Cockburn's Douro, Portugal
8 Château Larrivet-Haut-Brion 94 Château Larrivet Haut-Brion Pessac Leognan, France
9 Seppelt Para 100 YO Liquer Vintage 93 Seppelt Great Western, Australia
10 Montrose 91 Château Montrose Bordeaux, France
11 Pommard 89 Louis Jadot Burgundy, France
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