A question about "Tannins"

[Bucko]

Predicting ageability is a crap shoot at best. Track record of the winery helps, but this varies by vintage.

Trying to say that polished tannins (soft, supple, whatever) will not allow a wine to age is incorrect, as some people would have others believe. On the flip side, I have never seen a big, hard, tannic wine ever "come together" into a thing of beauty.

Balance is the key IMHO.

Bucko