Of Age And Aging: Is Older Wine Better Wine?

One of the things that makes wine stand out in the world of beverages is its ability to age and develop. It is a miraculous thing, tasting something older than you are (frustratingly, this gets more difficulty and expensive as you shuffle along the mortal coil). To taste a living thing formed by the elements 30 or more years before can be a truly remarkable experience – even a mind-boggling one. British wine writer, Tim Atkin, recently tweeted, “About to taste a Bual [style of Madeira] made in the year that the Battle of Gettysburg took place. Mind boggling.”
Of course, it can also be a frustration to taste and old wine and find it dead, past its prime, flat, oxidized, having fallen prey to the one of the many enemies nature throws at the bottle during its lifetime. But that makes the good ones even sweeter.[2oceansvibe]