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What is the life expectancy of an un-opened bottle of wine? I’m trying to build up my wine rack?

99.99% of all wines are ready for drinking on release and won’t improve. That includes branded wines and wines stocked by supermarkets. They should keep OK for up to two years.

If you are intending to have some wines ready and available for drinking in the next couple of years, then there is no problem.

If you are intending aging wine in order for it to taste better, then note that very few are intended for keeping, and indeed these are not too pleasant when young. They have high levels of tannins and the trick is to keep them long enough for the tannins to mellow and before the fruit fades.

These are primarily good red Bordeaux, some top red Burgundies, some top red Italian reds, and top red wood aged wines from other places.

Basically you are going to be paying a goodly sum of money for an ageable wine, and its likely that those that pay that money know about the wines they are buying.

If you are thinking of buyng wine to store for someones future birthday, then if you are looking at more than 15 years I suggest a good Port (from Portugal) — ask for advice from a good wine shop.

I’d also add that Champagne and methode Champenois wines from other places improve noticeably if stored for 6 months to 3 years after purchase.

If you intend keeping wine in the expectation that old wine is valuable, then that is unlikely. Very few wines get more valuable when they are old. Mostly the types of wines mentioned above.

A very crude measure is how much they cost you, anything under $20 should be drunk as soon as possible and within a couple of years, over $50 and it is likely to improve for a while and could be good drinking in 10 or 15 years.

But — an aged wine tastes differently to a young wine. Many people do not like the taste of an old wine.

If you are intending to store wine for a long time because you want it to improve or you think its value will increase, you have to start with the right wine. Come back with names and vintages.

And wines kept for aging need to be kept in cool dark conditions.

Much too much wine is opened to late than too early!

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