Is it goegraphy or architecture that draws younger oenophiles to bordeoux?
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It’s said that people tend to drift further to the right as they age. In reading, the trend is away from fiction towards history, biography and so on. In wine the axiom is that we begin by loving bordeaux, then graduate to an appreciation of burgundy. It’s a shift that can make a right old mess of someone’s careful cellar plan. Many who find themselves in a position to start collecting when still relatively young reach middle age with a splendid portfolio of bordeaux and almost no burgundy – just as they have decided that the latter is, after all, quite worth drinking.