Statuses about wine: about mood, women, art. Statuses about wine: about mood, women, art Good wine only gets better over the years

When a woman is over 40, the world changes. Someone will joke that with age we acquire only the best qualities, become more expensive and more playful, like good wine. Damn it, it's true! A mature woman has already found herself, she knows her strengths, resigned herself to weaknesses, she has a wagon of experience, tons of wisdom and a battle-hardened character. But one of the main achievements of maturity can be called one thing - with age, women acquire endurance.

Reaching maturity

It just so happened that young girls are too hot and emotional, they like to cut from the shoulder, perceive the world through the prism of feelings. Storms rage in their souls, and hormones control their consciousness. As soon as a guy says stupidity, she, without hesitation, will throw out all the power of her hatred on him, throw angry messages, and open her face with her nails. And then the veil will fall - and again love to the grave. As soon as the boss hurts her ego, she will immediately slam the door, write a letter of resignation ... and an hour later, with shaken ears, she will come to ask back, thereby losing all respect for herself.

With age, hormones calm down, character acquires self-control, and you can say to yourself: "Stop!" A clear understanding comes that all our decisions have consequences, and the one who is able to control himself wins in the war. It is not about suppressing emotions, but rather managing them. When you consciously accept the rule of not deciding anything in the heat of the moment. It's just that by this moment you respect yourself enough to wait a little, calm down and not spoil your body or nerves with empty tantrums.

Yours will be yours

The older a woman is, the more difficult it is to piss her off. She had seen so many things, experienced so much, cried so many tears! It is difficult to surprise her ... Therefore, she will not stoop to being rude in response to rudeness, will not call a man who has not shown an ounce of interest in her, and will not run with an apology to a man who has done wrong himself, but for some reason not cherishes relationships. A completely clear understanding comes to her: yours will stay with you, and you should not spray energy on strangers. This is how calmness, inner harmony and contentment come to life.

With age, women begin to value time more, and therefore do not waste energy on storytellers and windbags. So what, that she is 37, and tomorrow she will turn 38? She will not throw herself at anything, poison herself with the poison of dislike with the first comer, it is better to wait, she knows how to wait. If you're lucky, you will meet your own. And if she is unlucky, she will find something to fill her life with, fortunately, there are so many opportunities and ways of amusement around! She will look for exactly what she is worthy, because she has no time to waste her life on self-pity, constant rushing and anxiety, her health is too dear to her.

With age, the need to respond to enemy attacks disappears, you just wait and hit the upstart right on target when they are not expected of you. So that it was not povadno. With age, the need to eat what is horrible disappears, on the contrary, I want to please every cell of the body with life-giving moisture. You suddenly find yourself, the center of inner balance, and the world no longer seems so scary and indifferent. You just want to live, find a friend by heart, make fragrant tea and admire the beautiful sunset. As women age, they discover a taste for life, and it costs a lot!

I decided from time to time to write notes about the wine that I love and study. Last time I wrote, and today I will tell you about the myths around old wine.

People have two common myths about wine. Some believe that wine turns into vinegar over time, while others believe that it only gets better over the years.

Does wine turn into vinegar over time?

Wine that you buy in a store or restaurant cannot turn into vinegar. In production, sulfur dioxide was added to it, it is food supplement E220 - this substance stops the fermentation process, sterilizes wine. Wine in a bottle is "dead".

Different wines add different amounts of dioxide. It is most often added to sweet and strong ones, because its potential to sour is higher (bacteria love sugar). Less added to organic and biodynamic wines - because of this, they are stored less, they like coolness and do not like sunlight. There is no wine at all without dioxide, because small amounts of it are produced by bacteria during the fermentation process.

In general, sulfur dioxide in large quantities is harmful to health. But large quantities are more than 300 grams per liter, usually dozens of times less are added.

Despite the fact that wine is treated with sulfur dioxide in production, in rare cases, they can turn sour. For example, due to the fact that the cork of the bottle dried up, and through the formed tiny channel bacteria from the air got into the bottle, which ruined the wine. But this happens infrequently, usually with old wine and only in 1-2% of cases.

Also, homemade wine can be turned into vinegar, which is produced in an artisanal way, because no one processes it. But you are unlikely to taste such a wine (and thank God). And of course, an open bottle spoils easily, it generally lasts 1-2 days.

Will the wine get better over the years?

Some wines do get better over the years - but not all.

Wine contains many complex organic molecules that affect taste and aroma. Some got into the wine from soil, air and vine - with grape juice, others were formed during fermentation, and others were absorbed from wood during aging in a barrel. After the wine has been treated with sulfur dioxide, poured into bottles and corked, then new molecules will not appear in it, the old ones can only disintegrate.

The maturation of wine is the breakdown of complex molecules into new ones. As a result, wine changes its taste over the years. If the taste gets more interesting, then the wine has aging potential. This wine gets better over the years.

Most wines do not have aging potential, they will not get better over the years, and may even get worse. The potential is higher for saturated red wines that have been kept in the barrel for a long time - they have more complex molecules that can "properly" disintegrate.

It is better to drink inexpensive wine from the supermarket right away, it is useless to age it. A simple Bordeaux or Burgundy wine can be aged for 3-5, less often 10-15 years. Good wines age for 20-30 years.

At the same time, it cannot be said that the older a wine with potential, the better it is. It gains flavor only up to a certain point, and after the decay is already too significant, and the wine deteriorates. This boundary of taste is determined by wine critics based on their experience. Don't just keep the occasional wine at home if you don't know what you are doing.

A friend says that 1982 "Chateau Margot" is the best. How so?

Wine has good years and bad years (they are called vintages). V good year the weather was good for the grapes to ripen, and the wine turned out to be very tasty. For example, for Domaine Pomerol in Bordeaux, 1989 and 1990 were good vintages. And 1991 was an openly disastrous year, many wineries simply did not pour wine this year.

When people buy and drink old wine, they may be looking at the vintage. They know 2010 is a terrific year for Graves and that Northern California needs to be taken in 2013.

Accordingly, someone can pay thousands of euros for a bottle of their favorite wine of a good vintage if they understand it. Many wine lovers chase such bottles at auctions. But all this requires special knowledge.

A keen instinct for wine, an understanding of vintages and the potential of aging can turn winemakers and critics into superheroes. Top wine critic Robert Parker became famous after he called the 1982 Bordeaux wines amazing, in defiance of other critics - and he was right. Or Max Schubert, who made Australian wine famous. Since the 1950s, he has been making inferior dry sire wines at Penfolds. The production was about to close, but Schubert continued to experiment and age the wine. In 2008, for the Syrah from Penfolds it turned out to be an amazing vintage - the wine collected 100-point marks from leading critics. Today a bottle of Penfolds Grande 2008 costs about a thousand dollars.

I myself am still poorly versed in vintages and potentials, but I can assure you that aged wines differ in taste even for an inexperienced person. But for this you need to sit down and taste two wines at once, for example 2017 and 2005. Experienced hobbyists can understand vintage immediately without comparison. But here you need to drink (I don’t know how to rewrite the observation about wine).

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So, in a nutshell:

• Wine in a closed bottle will not turn into vinegar over the years.
• Old wine in itself is no better than new, and maybe even worse.
• Wine has aging potential.
• Red wines aged in cask for at least 12 months are potential. All other wines are best drunk at once.
• The aging potential must be determined by the wine critic. Don't buy wine for potential if you don't know where to find information about it.
• Wine has a good year and a bad year (vintage). Good vintages can cost several times more than bad vintages.
• A young wine of a good vintage will be better than an aged wine of a bad vintage.
• To better understand the vintages, it is better to attend a tasting at a wine club or go to a winery, where they will be treated to wine of different years.