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The Basics
The majority of wines produced should be consumed within a year or two, and very few are designed to last longer than a decade.
You would normally serve red wine with red meat, white wine with white meat or fish, and sweet wine with dessert.
The vintage of a wine refers to the year the grapes were picked rather than the year it was bottled - as these two are often different, especially for the leading vineyards.
It is thought that the process of making wine was discovered over 8000 years ago when yeast stuck to grapes stored in large jars by accident.
A ‘corked’ wine is one that has been affected by cork taint, something caused by the old process of using chlorine-based cleaning products in the winery (most wineries no longer use this since this was discovered as the cause of cork taint in the early 1990s). If a wine is corked it will taste and smell a little like wet