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How do you demostrate the effect of aging wine
One question I often get is "what does wine taste like when it's aged"
... or "why should I try to find a place to store wine for a while" My standard reply is to tell the person to go out and buy two bottles of the same, relatively inexpensive red that they enjoy. Plan for a dinner and on the morning of the that day, open one and pour it off into a decanter .. or any other container they might have at hand. At dinner ... open the 2nd bottle and taste it side by side with the one opened in the morning. The changes that they note are an approximation of what they will experience if they take the time to store a wine. What other methods would you think of ?? Art Stratemeyer ============================= http://www.stratsplace.com A Community Celebration the Joy of Wine,Gardening and the Arts Cellar! Wine Software http://www.cellarwinesoftware.com |
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"Art Stratemeyer" > wrote in message ... > What other methods would you think of ?? This is going to sound like blasphemy, but open the two bottles at the same time - _after_ storing one of them in a *warm* place for several months to a year. Heat accelerates the aging process dramatically. Don't waste a really good wine on this experiment. Tom S |
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Get a young wine and an old one of the same maker. There may be vintage
differences, but there's no other way to do it. To avoid vintage differences, get several young and seveal old ones. |
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