Ken Blake wrote:
> Roberta wrote:
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>>I hope that I am able to ask this question in a way so that you will
>>understand what I mean
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>>It is my understanding that if you keep wines long term - there will
>>be certain times (years?) that it will taste better than others. (So
>>if you keep a wine for 10 years it will taste different than if you
>>waited 15 to open it) I could be wrong :/
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> Your understanding is correct. Wine changes in the bottle. In general, most
> wines get better for a while, then go downhill. Wine can be too young to
> have reached its full potential, and it can be old enough that it no longer
> tastes good at all.
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>>I am looking for somewhere that there is perhaps a chart showing
>>vintage/area/best years to drink or something like that.
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>>The reason I ask....
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>>A few years ago (back when money was much tighter than it is now) I
>>bought my husband an "expensive" (relative to what we could normally
>>afford) bottle of wine - He has saved it. My concern is, how long is
>>too long to wait to open it - is there a way to know when we should
>>drink it??
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>>In case it is important it is a bottle of
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>>Caymus 1995 Cabernet
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> Yes, it's very important. How wine changes in the bottle, and how long it
> lasts before starting to go downhill depends on several things: what part of
> the world it's from, what the specific wine is, what the vintage is, and how
> it's been stored. There are vintage charts that you can use as a guide
> (Google will turn up lots of them), but they are never as specific as you
> might like them to be, and no chart can take storage conditions into
> consideration.
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> What many people do when they buy a wine to put away for aging is to buy a
> case of it, estimate when it might be ready, then start tasting a bottle
> every year from then on.
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> Getting back to your bottle, again, how it's been stored is very important,
> but my guess is that is that either now or some time over the next few years
> would a good time for it.
>

Thank you very much for your opinion

after reading the opinions here I think I will try and convince him to
try it sometime this holiday season - it hasn't been stored in the best
of conditions(he is military and we move alot) we have made a great
effort to at least keep it on its side lol

thank you again and I will let you know how it turns out

Roberta