Ep 121: Aging Wine Revisited
It's Groundhog Day in the US, which means, according to the namessake movie, we get a do-over! So we re-do the episode on aging -- we discuss what to hold, why, and the history behind it. We talk about ideal storage conditions a why we don't cellar wine. We hit on: The history of aging wine The chemical components that make a wine good for aging The role of cork in aging Which wines may age best The ideal conditions for cellaring and ways to cellar wine -- temperature, humidity, light, vibration Bottle types and dumb phases Why we don't cellar wine Hope you enjoy and learn more this time than the last time we covered this!