NPR, Wine Tasteing, & Audiophiles

As a cabernet and zinfandel enthusiast, I can say that for a wine to be excellent, is usally needs to be "put down" in a celler for a few years to really smooth out. That's when you can separate the good from the blah. It's like letting your equipment warm-up before a critical listening session, or allowing a new component (including cables) burn-in for a few hundred hours before you can determine it's sonic qualities.

Too often, wine tasting comparisons use vintages that are currently available and drinkable, but the taster misses the true potential of the wine because it needs to be properly aged over time, not just a few years from bottling.

Just my two-cents.

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Ross

Fatparrot-

Wine comes in bottles? And here I've been drinking it out of the box!

Agreed, often the higher-end wines have to age to come into their own. Their price is aimed at collectors who will do this. Though I've had many good bottles of young reds, their is nothing to compare to a properly aged red. It is simply divine! Sometimes, only time can work the magic.

I did a double blind test about five years ago.

I blindfolded and tied up my girlfriend spread eagled to the bed, then just left her there and went in to the next room to listen to my new DAC.

She was begging for more.

I visited a winery in the Shenandoah Valley in VA & the wife & I were treated to a tour before the place opened up by the owner. There were a bunch of bees hovering around an open red wine barrel & some of them were even swimming/soaking in the wine. I mentioned my allergic reaction to bees & that red wine gave me a headache...

I do most of my wine shopping at Sam's club and pick the wine based on how cool the bottle looks.