Older Wines
Though it's true that some wines will improve in the bottle, most people still appreciate wine in its youth, says Dan Berger. Chester-Alive/Shutterstock
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“Like fine old wine.”

We’ve all heard people use versions of this timeworn saying, which suggests that the aging of any wine improves it. That may be true for about 1 percent of the wines in this world, but it has sad consequences for the other 99 percent.

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