Is there a point to ageing wines?

They speculate whether when wines reach a certain point in their arc of development, their common secondary characteristics make them taste very similar, thereby robbing the drinker of what distinguished these wines originally.

Admittedly, there are wines that do age superbly well (not always the ones we expect) and others that are difficult to drink in their infancy - and the three cite examples of wines that may require holding back a considerable period of time before reaching their peak. The gang talk about the so-called drinking window for wines and whether it has any validity or meaning.

However, to illustrate that wines may mellow with age and reveal development without losing certain essential primary flavours, they taste a red wine from one of the pioneering Languedoc estates, Mas de Daumas Gassac Rouge from the 2016 vintage, followed by the legendary South African wines, Paul Sauer from Kanonkop 2012, a well-known Bordeaux-style blend that exudes youthful power to say the least.

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