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Regions, grapes, tasting, pairings: our articles to help you choose your bottles and know when to open them. Find them in the app too.
TastingWhen to drink wine? The myth of the bottle that always improves
You hear it at every meal: "Keep it, it will be better in ten years." In reality, the vast majority of wines sold today are made to be drunk within two or three years. Aging wine is the exception, not the rule. A matter of structure What allows a wine to age are its "natural preservatives": tannins, acidity, sugar, alcohol. A light red, a crisp white or a rosé doesn't have enough of it. It loses its fruit over time and gains nothing in return.
TastingPrésence 2015, a solar champagne
In 2015, Champagne experienced one of its sunniest seasons in several decades. A vintage marked by heat and early maturity, which long intrigued houses accustomed to working with acidity as their backbone. Ten years after the harvest, Bruno Paillard offers his reading of this vintage…