Different wine, the length of life is different. French Beaujolais wine (Beaujolais, also translated "Beaujolais"), also six months shelf life; Bordeaux wine village of some names (such as Margaux Castle), a century did not cooked. Generally believed that white wine because the tannin content of less antioxidant capacity somewhat less resistant than red wine release. However, many of Burgundy wine produced, have more than a decade of storage capacity.

Look at the color, is to identify a way to age wine. 18 to 27-year-old white wine, will show the same light as straw yellow, the color deepened from 28 to 35 years old, eventually become golden. Wine storage to this time, then do not drink on aging, and if the soil becomes amber and yellow, this wine has come to basically the end of life, does not drink up. Young red wine, usually purple or dark purple, the color becomes cherry red or ruby red when the description of this wine has begun to mature, it is best to drink. If you become red-brown or brick red, ordinary red wine becomes old.