Relying on quality due to age
Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran. Last week we spent a few programs discussing aging wines. But assuming a wine is going to be very good just because it is older could be risky.
Many people are under the impression that a wine with a few years on it must be good. This is a common misconception, perpetuated by the fact that although only a fraction of wine’s produced in the world are age-worthy, they seem to be the one’s constantly written about. To most this intimates that all wine benefits from aging and the older it is the better it must be. This is not necessarily the case. In fact, most of the wines produced today are made to be drunk young; white within the first year to three years and reds in the first