Aging reds at home

[Innkeeper]

There is a difference between "keeping" wines and "aging" wines. The first refers to how long you can store a wine before it goes bad. The second refers to how long you have to store a wine before it reached its peak. Most white wine you buy will keep for three or four years after vintage (the year on the bottle). A very few will age up to ten or fifteen years. Most red wines you buy will keep up to six or seven years after vintage. A very few will age to ten or twenty five years.

There are a very few wines in your price points that fall into the aging category. For example a Bordeaux from the district of St Julien is called Chateau Les Fiefs de Lagrange is in your fifteen dollar range. I usally age them eight to nine years from vintage.



[This message has been edited by Innkeeper (edited 05-25-2003).]