Why do people drink old wine?

However, no matter how much positive factors are attached to age agewothy wine, if you simply do not like those flavours, it's just not (yet) for you. Most people are not used to drink afed wines, and especially not whites, so maybe you'll need to give it some time to get used to. read more

( a low quality wine can have low-ish levels of very coarse unripe tannins which are very present in a wine, while high quality wine can have high levels of fine grained, smooth, tannins, which are possibly less noticeable, even though the level is high. read more

The wine industry loves to talk about aging and collecting wine because drinking a really old wine has a romantic allure. An old wine gives us a way to re-experience a year that was special in our memory, maybe the year of our birth or anniversary, or drink a wine that comes from a time we may never even have lived. read more

But wine drunk on its own is often a terrible drink, usually consumed for appearances’ sake, or because the drinker lacks the confidence to complain, or for want of any alternative source of alcohol. Our judgment of wine is also notoriously flaky — influenced as much by the appearance and weight of the bottle as by its contents. read more