What age maturity?
Having collected wine now for close to a decade Hanes is now reaping the rewards of his wine collection, pulling bottles to drink with considerable age on them. Factor in being around many other collectors who own older wines and Hanes gets to consume a wide variety of older bottles of fermented grape juice. Which, more and more, raises the question in Hanes’s mind: Why do we even age wine? The easy and obvious answer is because older wines taste differently than the same wines when younger and we like these flavor developments. While the vast majority of wine produced worldwide does not improve with aging, a small and select few do. And, naturally, Hanes is an elitist and only wants to discuss those few. These “few” are indeed many thousand different bottlings produced each year, however, that’s a drop in the spitbucket when compared to the seas of bulk wine made every year. Over the course of history, these thousands of wines have proven time and again that patience will reward with
