Thus, producers make their wines readier and easier to drink after minimum aging. Visit any wine store and you’ll find that the vast majority of white wines are from a vintage only a year old ...
This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 2010 Dominique Demarville, cellar master for the champagne house Veuve Clicquot, got what he thought was a joke call ...
A period of time spent in bottle prior to release and/or consumption; a small percentage of wines gain complexity and bouquet during extended bottle aging. The vast majority of wines produced are ...