Originally Posted by printingray

After an hour, I realized that the wines started to taste tight, tannin, and even slightly austere. Was it the wines or me? I looked outside and I saw a cold front rolling over the vineyards with rain and all sorts of bad ..... And I started feeling cold and sort of achy. I thought that maybe the wines were feeling the same way. They were closing down. They were battening down the hatches for the tempest that was arriving. The atmospheric pressure was dropping. So, I gave them a little more time in the glass. I tried to better understand what their flavors and structures were.