Burton, Neel. The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting. 2nd ed. Acheron Press, 2016.
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.
Neel Burton, The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, 2nd ed. (Acheron Press, 2016), supplied PDF positions 261–263.
Neel Burton, The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, 2nd ed. (Acheron Press, 2016), supplied PDF positions 261–263.
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Burton, Concise Guide, PDF 261–263.
Fractional blending is not an age guarantee or evidence of an infinity-bottle effect
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Citation
Neel Burton, The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, 2nd ed. (Acheron Press, 2016), supplied PDF positions 261–263.
Bibliography
Burton, Neel. The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting. 2nd ed. Acheron Press, 2016.
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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.
Verification and limits
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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