To age or not to age Amarone? The answer is as complex as the finest Amarone themselves. Ultimately it comes down to quality and how you like to drink your wine.
As a fledgling wine collector, or even a seasoned master with a good number of rare, aged bottles in your portfolio, you'll understand that beginning and nurturing a quality wine collection can be a complicated business.
Throughout the year, new releases from Italy’s various denominations are trotted out. When should you open them? From Veneto to Piedmont and into Tuscany, here is an ageing guide for Italian wines that have hit shelves in 2022.
The act of wine collecting can be compared to a great assemblage of artwork. Both fine wine and art attract a great deal of public attention, command enormous prices and, unfortunately, are often faked and sold as the real deal.
To sake drinkers, vintage sake is something out of the ordinary, possibly even extraordinary. Why? Quite simply because, unlike wine, vintage sake is the exception that proves the rule.
“Age cannot wither her,” says the narrator Enobarbus in Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra. He could just as easily have been talking about the longevity of fine wine as Antony’s infatuation.