Several bottles of perfectly aged fine wine, ready (and needing) to be drunk in the next 12 months.

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This trio of bold red grape varieties may be last into the cellar, but any aficionado who appreciates brooding, dark oak-aged red wine will tell you, these are definitely worth the wait.

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Some experts are also re-examining the role of common migraine triggers such as alcohol, chocolate, red wine, aged cheese and caffeine.

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Unlike a fine wine, the tax code has not aged well, and the current system has reached staggering levels of complexity.

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It can identify wine snobs who ski, for Patagonia, or gardeners aged 50-plus who might be in the market for one of Vermont Country Stores' cast-iron apple peelers.

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Sorry, I'll tune in again at bed time, but right now I've just got to hand-sharpen my new Japanese carbon-steel knife and mince shallots for the red-wine reduction sauce I'm slathering on those dry-aged rib-eyes that I got from Joe the Butcher, my new best friend.

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Perhaps he, like many of us, shared the sentimental view espoused on the back label of a million bottles that wine is a simple agricultural product, the fermented juice of grapes that is maybe aged for a time and then bottled.

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