I’ve noticed that the Wine Advocate drinking windows are often very short. I’ve attached a few examples from my cellar. The idea that Mount Eden Chardonnay would be undrinkable within ten years, for example, or Tondonia within 18 years, is hard to believe.
Do they just think about drinking windows differently, where the tertiary phase is excluded from their windows? (I realize not everyone at WA is like this—William Kelley definitely isn’t, and Joe Czerwinski usually gives decent windows too.) My favorite critic is John Gilman, but his windows often seem too optimistic. Any others who provide drinking windows somewhere in the middle?
by wsv19