Castle Rock

[Innkeeper]

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.

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