Thread: "All mature wines taste of more than just fruit. Mature wines neverassault your senses with simply one flavor, sensation or aroma. They own amultitude of notes that can enthrall your palate like a veritable symphony..."

On Jan 10, 6:25*pm, aesthete8 <art...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.hiluxury.com/wines-age/

Does that mean that a wine does not reveal its unique identity until
it is fully mature?

"aesthete8" <[email protected]> skrev i melding
news:[email protected]...
On Jan 10, 6:25 pm, aesthete8 <art...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.hiluxury.com/wines-age/

Does that mean that a wine does not reveal its unique identity until
it is fully mature?

In my view, the concept of maturity is a little bit misleading. What is
true is that the wine changes all the time during storage. Asking an old
vintner which was best - a young wine or an old one, he shrugged and told
me: Some love the daughter, others the mother...

Both have an unique identity... :-)

However - it is also true that many wines, notably red wines of some class
from Bordeaux or Italy, for instance, go through a phase of sleeping at
about 6-10 years of age.

Anders

On 1/11/2011 2:47 PM, Anders Tørneskog wrote:
> "aesthete8"<[email protected]> skrev i melding
> news:[email protected]...
> On Jan 10, 6:25 pm, aesthete8<art...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.hiluxury.com/wines-age/
>
> Does that mean that a wine does not reveal its unique identity until
> it is fully mature?
>
> In my view, the concept of maturity is a little bit misleading. What is
> true is that the wine changes all the time during storage. Asking an old
> vintner which was best - a young wine or an old one, he shrugged and told
> me: Some love the daughter, others the mother...
>
> Both have an unique identity... :-)
>
> However - it is also true that many wines, notably red wines of some class
> from Bordeaux or Italy, for instance, go through a phase of sleeping at
> about 6-10 years of age.

Some never wake up... :-)