Do not literalize the teaching metaphor or guarantee surviving two-hundred-year-old material in every bottle. Average age, earliest possible component and oldest cellar stock differ. Source withdrawal rules and VOS/VORS wording need authoritative checks before public guidance; a home infinity bottle lacks flor/cask/controlled-flow equivalence.
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In the source's solera account, repeated withdrawals and replenishments integrate different ages and barrels, with different flow needs for biologically versus oxidatively aged sherries. The narrative uses older wines 'teaching' younger ones as a metaphor.
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Fractional blending is not an age guarantee or evidence of an infinity-bottle effect
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In the source's solera account, repeated withdrawals and replenishments integrate different ages and barrels, with different flow needs for biologically versus oxidatively aged sherries. The narrative uses older wines 'teaching' younger ones as a metaphor.
Context and limitations
Do not literalize the teaching metaphor or guarantee surviving two-hundred-year-old material in every bottle. Average age, earliest possible component and oldest cellar stock differ. Source withdrawal rules and VOS/VORS wording need authoritative checks before public guidance; a home infinity bottle lacks flor/cask/controlled-flow equivalence.
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