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| Aged is a wine which have had a "rest" period, usually shorter if white and longer if red. White wines tend to turn from a greenish yellow when young to a gold/amber color as they age. Reds usually have a purple tone when young, but with the time the substances responsible for the color literally "fall" down in the bottle forming the unpleasant sediment which is possible to find in every aged red wine. In fact, when aged, red wines become garnet or orange red in color: this aspect is detectable at the surface edge in a wineglass. If the wine color has deepened into a distinctly brown-orange tint at the edge it usually indicates a wine past its peak and declining. |
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