My only experience here is: Yellowtail does not get better in a year or
two. Seriously, I tried some cheap wines wondering if it would get
better, so stored them off for a year and some for 2 years. No better.

smile. DAve


mail box wrote:
> On 8/21/2008 1:18 AM, Jim Oakley wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:20:40 GMT, Jim > wrote:
> [snipped]
>> From the 30SecWineAdvisor
>> (a free wine lover's page by Robin Garr)
>> http://www.wineloverspage.com/index.phtml
>>
>>
>> • Most wines don't age. This point is simple but often overlooked.
>> Probably 99 percent of all the wines made in the world, including
>> virtually all inexpensive wines, are never better than when they are
>> first bottled. Only a tiny fraction are made to age, and an even
>> smaller number require aging.
>
> I've got to say that I disagree strongly with this advice. I can't
> count the number of times I've visited a small Virginia winery for a
> tasting of their very best, found it all to be marginal (I prefer reds,
> and VA reds are typically horrible), and bought a couple bottles that I
> thought might age well and parked them in the wine cellar (read: the
> room in the basement I've dedicated to brewing wine, mead, and beer) for
> a few years. I typically take a completely uninformed (as in, I'm no
> sommelier or wine expert) guess and write the year I think they'll be
> more approachable on the label. Say, 2-3 years or so. In almost every
> case I've been happy to have purchased the bottle once it has a few more
> years of age.
>
> My sample size is fairly small, but all of the wines would fall into the
> "inexpensive wines" category, even if the small winery puts a price on
> the bottle which it can not represent.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Ken Taborek