Sunday, April 17, 2011

When should we open a bottle of wine? Does age really matters?

From a technical point of view, age may be important when we drink a wine, but a young wine can be just as rewarding as an old wine.
The point is, do you want to drink your wine when it has reached its peak? This is something very hard to determine because to find that out you would need to keep several bottles of one type of wine, so you could open one every so often and wait patiently until you find that the bottle you open is at its best. This could be a very expensive experiment.
Are you one of those who simply prefer a young wine or your drinking habits allow you to keep a bottle for a long time? Or, maybe your budget is not such that you could buy an old and expensive bottle of wine?
Whatever the case may be, if you are satisfied with what you drink, and your concerns are not about discovering, just leave this task to the more sophisticated oenophiles. At the end, whatever you do about this, it is going to be worthy, interesting, exciting and educational, and definitely you will enjoy your wine one way or another!