by Jenise » Sat Jan 13, 2018 12:01 pm
Tristan, welcome. Yes I would recommend aging your Amarones. You want to lay the bottles on their sides so that the wine remains in contact with the corks, and store them in a cool place that hopefully never exceeds 70F, 55ish is even better. Discreetly date the back labels of the bottles so you know when you laid them down, and plan to drink each at two different intervals at some point in time in the future, say five and ten years respectively (depending on your age and your patience).
And as an aside, joining an online group like this way back when at a time when my excitement about wine was vastly out of proportion to my knowledge was one of the best things I ever did. I would drink a wine and come here and talk about it; and moreover I read tasting notes others had written about wines then bought the same wine and tasted them so that I could look for the same characteristics they described. I had a dozen or so mentors and none of them even knew it! Reading their notes taught me how to think about what I was tasting. I started opening two bottles at a time (presuming we'd drink no more than one a night, and back then only on weekends at that) so that I could watch how wines evolved over 24 and then 48 hours, sometimes longer. I took notes on everything and started posting tasting notes. It literally trained my palate, which is still evolving to this day--it's self-study of the most exciting kind.
You can do the same, and this is a great group to learn from. Tons of knowledge here, but a relatively small group so everyone will feel like friends quickly.
My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov