Aging Wine

Most wines will not keep well in your cellar for 20 years.
Aging Wine
Aged wine might be coming back. Dario Lo Presti/Shutterstock
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Twenty years ago, one of the questions I got asked most was, “How long do you think this wine will age before I drink it?”

That was then. For about the past two decades, almost no one has asked me. The only reason I can give for this is that people didn’t really care about aging wine, which appears to be reflected in the way most red wines have been made since the mid-1990s. (Very few white wines are made to be aged.)

Dan Berger
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