"Wine Is A Living Thing"

My mentor, Fritzy Haskell was soooo right! Tonight we opened a bottle of 2001 Angludet Margaux. At first it seemed flat, old, and uninteresting. We thought it had already died a premature death. There was tannin, but not much else there. After ten or fifteen minutes in the glass it tasted like a totally different wine. Lots of delicious black fruit flavors emerged and by the time we started to pour it from the decanter it was in full bloom and went really great with duck breast. This wine changed more in less than half an hour than many wines change in ten or twenty years. As Fritzy used to say,"Wine is a living thing."