You’re Drinking Your White Wine Wrong
Five bottles to challenge conventional wine wisdom.
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Even if you don’t know much about wine, you probably know that thumbing your nose at a well-aged red risks making you look like a jerk—or even, the Jerk, as when Steve Martin’s title character turns down a bottle of 1966 Château Latour: “Let’s splurge! Bring us some fresh wine, the freshest you’ve got!”
But white wine drinkers do this exact thing all the time. That’s their loss, says Matthew Kaner, co-owner of Augustine Wine Bar in Los Angeles, which specializes in aged wines. “White wine can age amazingly well,” he says.