Wine Cellar

Red wines in particular are often released to market a bit sooner than they should be.
Wine Cellar
Red wines in particular are often released to market a bit sooner than they should be, so buying young quality wines and waiting for a year to consume them is a valid strategy. Sirbouman/Shutterstock
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The downturn in sales of all alcoholic beverages in the last two years has left the worldwide wine industry struggling to right the ship, and experts are now talking about good values popping up on store shelves everywhere.

It isn’t only that prices are softer than they have been of late, but many wineries are now making fewer cases of top-of-the-line wines, so many of them are making use of high-quality grapes in less-expensive products.

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