Aging in bottle: locut. Until bottling, the wine was in a controlled oxidative environment (barrel or vat). It was also protected by a very measured contribution of sulfur (sulfur dioxide). With its bottling, it begins a new life in the state of reduction. It will soften, develop clumps due not to oxygen (the plug hardly lets anything through) but to a reduction process which is linked to the precipitation of phenolic compounds. Its color has ...
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