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Article: It's Better to Drink Wine Than to Age It
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 8, 1995
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Old wine is revered in poem and anecdote, myth and song, and I
don't ignore a chance to try mature wines at the plummet of a Panama.
Still, I drink most wine a lot younger than the books say you
should. I like fruit, and I'm willing to put up with the minor
annoyance of some gritty tannins in red wines to assure myself that
I'm getting my fair share of Mother Nature's handiwork, the grape,
and not too much of Father Time's ravages.
As for white wines, I stopped aging them long ago when I
realized that the Chardonnays I was stashing were, a decade later,
really sherry.
But recently I tasted a wine that really did get better with age.
It was quite mature and had a complex cedar and spice ...