Best Wines To Put In Your Wine Cellars
Whether youre a wine novice or a connoisseur, owning wine cellars or its alternative
, a wine refrigerator, is a worthwhile investment for anyone who enjoys wine.
Aging wine is an art form that many wine lovers and connoisseurs over the ages have enjoyed for centuries. There is no better feeling than turning a young, vibrant wine into a mature classic, discovering new flavors and aromas for you to enjoy each time you open a bottle.
However, in collecting wines, it is crucial to know that not all of them are created to age gracefully. In fact, most of them made today are the drink-me-now kind or one which are best drunk young, while their rich fruity flavors show best. While these wines taste great in their first year or two after bottling, with cellaring, they will only decline over time, simply losing their fruit, without gaining much else. Also, an inferior or poorly made young wine will forever remain poor. No amount of aging can improve wines that are unbalanced, flawed or unlikeable to personal taste in general.
So in order to cellar wines and age successfully at all, you need to select only the right stuff to start out with.
In general, a wine must have a fine balance among fruit, acidity and tannins. Tannins, the natural preservatives that come from the grapes skin, tend to soften as time passes. It will round up the wine, bringing out its best bouquet and balance. Thus, to make wines age well, they must have enough fruit, acidity and tannin and of enough concentration, with a strong structure and character now, to go the distance.
Ageable wines are tannic, acidic, well-structured, and complex as wines without much personality and complexity will not age well.
In the world of wine, a good indication of its structure and complexity is its price.
The more expensive wines are generally of high quality as these are designed to develop over time, becoming better with age, trading youthful vivacity and fresh, primary fruit flavors for aromatic depth and a layered, subtle complexity.
So what are the best kinds of wines to cellar?
In general, the kinds of wines that are better suited to cellaring are the reds than white wines.
Typically, dry white wines dont benefit much, if any, from aging, except the very fine Burgundy (2-10 years), Riesling (0-8 years), Chardonnay (0-5 years) and Champagne (5-8 years), which are well suited to medium- to long-term cellaring. Nevertheless, it is still wise to store these white wines in a cellar to protect them from heat and light damage.
On the other hand, a fine, well-balanced red wine from a good vintage are best suited to longer-term cellaring. Most very fine Cabernet Sauvignons, classified-growth Bordeaux, Syrahs, Burgundys, Barolos, and Riojas are made to be so aggressively tannic when they're young that they require aging in order to reach their full potential.
So here are the recommended times of storage of different wines, based from WineBase Australia website:
Wine Type Ageing
Barolo 5-15 years
Bordeaux 5-15 years
Burgundy 2-10 years
Cabernet-Merlot blend 2-8 years
Cabernet Sauvignon 3-10 years
Cabernet-Shiraz blend 3-10 years
Chardonnay 0-5 years
Chianti 0-5 years
Merlot 2-5 years
Pinot Noir 2-5 years
Port non-vintage 0-5 years
Port vintage 5-20 years
Riesling 0-8 years
Rioja 3-10 years
Shiraz 2-5 years
Sparkling wines non-vintage 0-2 years
(Champagne)
Sparkling wines vintage 5-8 years
(Champagne)
Syrah 5-10 years
Zinfandel Red 1-5 years
by: Jean Maddocks
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