Does it make a difference what sort of container you use to age your wine?
Aging
Oct 07, 2011
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Very much so. Plastics of all sorts are gas-permeable, and hence unsuitable for long-term storage of wine, as oxygen can dissolve through the walls of the vessel. Best for most home winemakers is a glass carboy fitted with an airlock filled with potassium metabisulfite.
Next best container for aging is a tightly corked wine bottle.
I seem to get the best results from about a year bulk-aging in carboys, followed by 2+ years in bottles.
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