I remember Nicholas Joly [1] recommending to do a longitudinal tasting of his wine, drinking a glass from the same bottle every day for a week, just to see how it evolves.
He is the kind of fascinating winemaker that does not even have electricity in his cellars so I doubt he would go for inert gas storage in lieu of re-corking it.
I think I managed to do a full week tasting just once, with a lot of discipline. It was an interesting experience with his wine, but in my experience the optimal temporal span for tasting a single wine is no more than a few hours.
Agreed. I prefer to keep the wines off the table until they have opened up properly since there is a tendency for them to disappear quickly once the tasting starts. It also allows you to keep them a bit cooler for serving which has a huge impact on the experience.
He is the kind of fascinating winemaker that does not even have electricity in his cellars so I doubt he would go for inert gas storage in lieu of re-corking it.
I think I managed to do a full week tasting just once, with a lot of discipline. It was an interesting experience with his wine, but in my experience the optimal temporal span for tasting a single wine is no more than a few hours.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Joly