eli5: What about the taste of wine actually gets better with age? Articles online describe flavor can improve over time, but not what about the flavor changes.
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Some wines will mature over time and develop more complex and interesting flavours. But not all of them do so. Wine is produced for a market, so if you go to your local store and buy a bottle of cheap wine it will most likely not taste any better in five years than it does now, and in fact will most likely taste a lot worse, because it is produced with the intention that it will be drunk young. However, if you buy a good quality burgundy (for instance) that is only a few years old and leave it (in a suitable place – which means a constant cool temperature) for a decade it is very likely it will have aged well and have developed so that instead of tasting fruity and lively it will have more depth to the taste (think of dried fruit and spices). Of course, you could be unlucky and the wine might have ‘corked’ and gone off. All of this predominantly applies to red wine.
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