hi

I know nothing about wine other than I found out a few years back that I started to prefer it to beer.

This happened when I went to live in Spain for a time. I found that the beer was not great and I changed to drinking wine....red wine in Spain IMHO is much much better than white so I drink mainly only red or rosado ( pink|).

Since coming back home I have joined an on-line wine club. Not really to find out about all the ins & outs of wines etc but to be able to buy very good wines at a reasonable price.

I buy mainly Spanish wines and there are many of them these days. I enjoy trying different regions. I do buy wines from other countries and I enjoy those from Argentina and Chile best after Spanish ones.

With regard to whether the wines age in the bottle.....I am pretty sure they do. In fact when I buy the wines from the club they give advice on the date when to start drinking it and the longest date that they recommend you keep it.

This varies from " drink now to drink before end of 2015....on the wines I have at present.

As a guide generally the more expensive wines are recommended to be kept for at least a year before opening and the less expensive ones are to be drunk almost immediately.

I have found that this is not necessarily a guide to which suits my taste the best. Some of the cheaper wines are better than the expensive ones.

The way to judge a good wine.....taste it and if you like it, it is good.

Cheers hic

MikeL2