Wine's age?

[Innkeeper]

Most wine, including most red wine is made to be consumed at release or within a year or two. A lot of wine that will go much further even falls within this practice. You will see on many wines these days a statement that goes something like this: "Can be consumed right now, but will improve over the next few years." There is reatively very little wine that must be aged. These include most Red Bordeaux (say any that costs more than $15 or $20); some Burgundy reds and fewer whites; reds from the upper Rhone, and CDPs from the lower Rhone; Barolo, Barbarescos, and Brunellos from Italy, a small handful of shiraz from Australia; and their counterparts from other parts of the New World, including the U.S.

[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 01-09-2002).]