aging

[Kcwhippet]

Unless you really like the taste of really old wines, I'd put more confidence in what the web sites said than the store guy. Unless the wine has been stored pristinely since bottling, and you'll be storing the same, I would really hesitate to let it lay for 15 and hope for the best. Even my own wines that are meant to age that long are opened sooner because I prefer the taste of younger fruit. It's really a crap shoot if you let them sit till the outer limit of what someone says is the aging range. All that said, I do have some 1990 Bordeaux that are still sitting down, but those are the extreme exeption.