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

“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.