SC - When did they start aging wine?

[Marilyn Traber]

My take on the subject is a bit skewed. Could it be interpreted to mean that
the rich who could afford to buy wine in the cask to age and the invention
of corked bottles allowed us common scumto buy just a little bit of wine in
a more affordable form to age? I buy single bottles of promising wines to
age and the 17 litre boxes to use for immediate drinking and cooking. If I
had to buy 17 litres of a more expensive wine, I wouldn't. The cost would be
prohibitive, and I would soon run out of the small amount of room that I
have suitable for aging wines.
margali
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>At 1:31 AM -0600 6/29/98, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>
>>The young, small ale drunk
>>by the majority of folks in period will likely lose out to the fine,
>>aged wine drunk by an extemely small portion of the populace.
>
>I was recently reading a biography of Pepys (late 17th century). The author
>said that the use of corks was just coming in at the time, and associated
>that change with the introduction of aged wines. Of course, wines could be
>aged earlier in the cask, but the implication semed to be that it was only
>with the introduction of corked bottles that long aging, concern about
>vintages, etc. appeared.
>
>Does anyone know what the facts on this are? Is the "extremely small
>portion" actually zero in our period?
>
>David/Cariadoc
>

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