2011 Domaine Drouhin Oregon Pinot Noir
Community Tasting Note
jmcafee wrote:
87 Points
Saturday, March 16, 2013 - Pleasant to drink now, but this will not improve much with age. Structurally it is a lightweight. Drink now through 2016. Tasted twice with similar results.
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Comment posted by Oregonnative:
3/21/2013 10:24:00 PM - How can you tell a wine won't improve with age? I'm new to wine tasting.
Comment posted by jmcafee:
3/21/2013 11:49:00 PM - Re: how do I know it wont improve with age?
Understand that wine aging is nothing more than a prolonged chemical reaction. The outcome depends on the core ingredients in the milieu. If the ingredients lack balance, or are simple, or are rather weak in their expression, there is a good chance that any of these will limit the potential for the wine to positively change or improve character over time. A wine that doesn't improve with age doesn't mean the wine is not good -- to the contrary!
Your sense of what wines are age-worthy are based learning about the composition of wine, followed by a prolonged tasting experience that includes keeping tasting notes, then back testing those predictions referencing the tasting notes. Historically I've been pretty good and I'm confident of my judgement (though I do make mistakes). What works for my palate may be different for someone else.
Invest in 3-6 bottles of a given wine, drink one every few years, and keep notes on what you taste at each point. You will begin to appreciate how a wine changes -- for better or worse.
Comment posted by Rktekt3:
9/17/2014 7:20:00 PM - I agree that this will not improve with age, but it wont get any worse either.