Hardy's St Thomas Burgundy Vintage 1964

Hardy's St Thomas Burgundy Vintage 1964About the wine Thomas Hardy & Sons was one of the pioneers of the South Australian wine industry, founded in 1853. St. Thomas Burgundy was a historic and well regarded line of red wines from Hardy's, dating back to at least the 1940s. "Burgundy" was the generic term for a dry red wine. it was standard practice for Australian wineries to blend grapes from different regions to achieve a consistent style and quality that transcended annual vintage

making an interesting year

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known for producing red wines with notes of blackcurrant

premium wines

Dolceto grapes are traditionally grown on plots were Nebbiolo struggles to ripen

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Wine Level: Base of neck

As a result most wines were consumed in the first few years of release

Namibia - a depiction of all that is honest and true

A Cru Bourgeois that is considered by some critics to rival many Cru Classe wines particularly since 1975

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but good producers made some good wines