Collection: The 1950s

Turn seventy in 2026 and you were born in 1956. It is a birthday people mark properly, usually with a dinner and a speech, and a bottle from the year itself gives the speech something to hold.

1959 is the vintage of the decade and was called great almost before it was in bottle, the result of a long hot summer that ran from Bordeaux through Burgundy. 1953 and 1955 have their defenders, the first for its charm and the second for its balance. Port was declared in 1950 and 1955. Rioja still surfaces from Spanish cellars, where gran reserva was always made to be kept, and Armagnac runs through every year of the decade, which matters when the year you need is 1952 rather than one of the famous ones.

These bottles are seventy years old and are sold as collectible items, without a guarantee that they are still good to drink. That is the honest position and we hold to it. If nothing sound can be found in your year, we tell you and refund you in full. Delivery is 7 to 10 working days, tracked.