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- PinotEnvy - 02-27-2004
I have noticed with the Castle Rock brand of wines they put information on how long they reccomend aging their wine until. As a novice, I really like that. Do other wines do that? I have not seen it on any other labels?
Just as a personal aside, I have had the 2002 Pinot Noir, and enjoyed it thoroughly. I am looking forward to opening my bottles of their other varieties. I read the Zin review already.
PE
- Innkeeper - 02-27-2004
You will frequently see statements like: "Ready to drink now, but will improve over the next four or five years." There are a couple of distracting things about such statements. First of all there seems to be some sort on incongruity between the "now and in five" bit. Secondly, wine does not improve over a straight line, as the statement implys. Wine improves over a negative parabolic curve, so you don't want to pop it when it is at the bottom of the curve. Admittedly a short term ager does not have as radical a curve as a long time ager, but there is still a possiblity that opening the wine described above at 2 1/2 years will find it worse that it was in the beginning or would be at five years.
Did you ever ask a question, you couldn't stand the answer to?
- PinotEnvy - 02-27-2004
Why does your answer give me the idea of buying a dartboard to help decide when to open it? [img]http://wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img]
Thanks for the answer. I had always assumed the line was one directional instead of a curve. Much to learn still.
- Innkeeper - 02-27-2004
We usually decide when to open a wine at the time of acquisition. We always ask the source about approachability. If it goes into the current consumption (80%)section of the collection, we find a place for it and drink in over the next year or three. If it needs time, we decide when that time will be (rightly or wrongly) and put it in the proper sequential place in the aging part of our collection, and enter it into the "wine laid down" file on the computer. Even then things don't always happen when they should. We recently popped a wine that was programmed for last year. No big deal. Other than occassionally being a little early or a little late in guessing a wine's "moment", we have had no big disappointments with this system. Remember that 95% of all wine made in the world is ready to go on release.
- sedhed - 02-27-2004
I should have paided more attention in math class.[ don't say it spelling also]
- Springer29710 - 02-27-2004
To Innkeeper:
Sometimes when searching the wine sections in the grocery store or wine shop I find a stray bottle of any name that is 6 years old or older. I recently found an inexpensive wine Glen Ellen 1998 chardonnay. It was excellent with boiled shrimp and salad. Did the age make it better even in this cheaper wine?
- Innkeeper - 02-27-2004
IMHO if it was excellent, it was a miracle. An inexpensive wine can be surprising in a temperature controlled basement or other environment, but to be on a grocer's shelf for four or five years, and survive is really beating the odds.