Aging Potential of White Wines

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Mihaly Fabok and we are here on behalf of Expert Village. We are talking about white wines, how to serve, how to enjoy. Some wine you have to enjoy it when the wine is fresh and young and some wine has great aging potential like the natural preservatives, the alcohol, the acidity, the tannin, the flavor of the wine. So some of the wine is light bodied, fresh, fruity, even can be rich but it hasn't got too much aging potential. For example many of the white wine made by reductive technology means it was fermented and aged only in a stainless steel tank. To keep the primary fruity flavor and aroma we have to enjoy this wine when it is one or two years old maximum. But if you have a nice full bodied wine which was aged in the oak barrel and the wine is full bodied, rich, aromatic, you can keep this wine up to five, ten, fifteen years depends on the quality, the grape variety, the wine making technique."