Wine does not always get better with age.

Wine pays attention to three parts craftsmanship and seven parts raw materials. The process is mainly affected by factors such as winery equipment and the winemaker’s brewing technology, which are relatively easy to control. The raw material of wine is grapes. If the grapes are of good quality, the wine will be relatively good. Grapes are affected by climate factors such as sunshine and rainfall. Years with poor weather conditions will inevitably affect the quantity and quality of wine in that year. For growing grapes, bad weather refers to factors such as lack of water during the growth period, insufficient sunshine or excessive rainfall during the harvest period. If the climate conditions are good that year, the grapes will be harvested well and the wine will be made well. Therefore, the older the vintage, the better the wine. For example, the Bordeaux wines of 1982 and 1990 scored 10 points, but the 1980 wines only had 4 points, and the 1981 wines only had 6 points. Therefore, the wines of 1982 are better than those of 80 and 81. In the same way, the ones from 1990 are better than those from 1989, 1988, 1987, etc. In addition, it is also a good year to get 10 points. The 1982 vintage will be more expensive than the 1990 vintage, because the price is not only determined by quality, but also affected by supply and demand, brand awareness and other factors.

As for the vintage, there are the following points of reference:

1. Most of the wines sold in hypermarkets are ordinary wines. These can be drank within a few years after they are released. Well, the proportion of wine that can withstand aging is small.

2. Dry white and dry red have different climate requirements: high temperature is conducive to the ripening of red grapes, but too high a temperature will cause the loss of fruit acid in white grapes, causing the dry white wine to lose its freshness and flavor. Fruity.

3. Experts’ ratings of the quality of a certain country or region’s vintage can only be used as a reference, not as an absolute standard. Because there are also regional microclimates in different communities within the same country or region. The general climate is bad, but it does not mean that all communities in the region are bad. Even in the same community, grape varieties from different wineries may have different climate requirements. In addition, some wineries have adopted in-depth selection of grapes in bad years to control quantity and quality, or adopted some artificial remedies, so the quality of the wine may not be much worse than in good years.

4. Place of origin. Factors that affect climatic conditions may only occur in a certain local area, so the quality of a year depends on the production area. This is especially common in planting areas with northern latitudes, such as Germany, Austria, northern France and other places. On the contrary, in Australia and California, the weather is stable and grapes are abundant every year, so the issue of vintage quality is not prominent.