Wine Style: On the Grapevine ; Maturing with Age with Clive Platman
Birmingham Post › March 31, 2004
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Most of the wine we buy off the supermarket shelf is ready to be drunk immediately. Perhaps it's just as well, as one recent study found that the average time between purchase and consumption is a mere 14 hours. As long as that, you may ask?
The vast majority of wine today is made to satisfy this demand. It's ready to drink within a year or two of bottling, and the pleasure these wines offer is in their freshness and fruitiness. They are designed to be easy and forward, but once past the flush of youth, their charm quickly fades.See the full content of this document
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Wine Style: On the Grapevine ; Maturing with Age with Clive Platman
Inexpensive wine is at its best when young. There is not the concentration of flavour or the key constituents of acid or tannin to make them last.
Hence cheap whites and roses should be drunk within a year of the vintage and reds within two years. The...See the full content of this document
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