Lot of this depends on how the wine is made, both for whites and reds.
For commercial wines, the main goal in the cheaper end of the
spectrum is to move as much wine as fast as possible, so they are made
for immediate drinking and don't have the stuffing to improve with
cellaring. In home winemaking that's not a concern, and we have the
freedom to make wines we like - a big plus!

Pp

On Sep 3, 10:02*am, DAve Allison > wrote:
> 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- Hide quoted text -
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