Red Burgundy - 1944

White Burgundy - 1944

Overall quality of the vintage: poor.

Bordeaux Red - 1944

Bordeaux White - 1944

Overall quality of the vintage: fairly good but light and uneven wines.

Syrupy Bordeaux - 1944

Overall quality of the vintage: very good. Uneven nowadays, but the best are still very good

Champagne - 1944

Harvested in appalling weather, this year's grapes produced no vintage. In Ay, René Goutorbe remembers those years when he was away in an STO forced labour camp in Austria: "My parents managed to send me champagne. We cooled the bottles in the snow. Believe me, that was a good year!"

Rhone Valley - 1944

Except in the south of the region where some good wines were made, quality was noticeable by its absence.