11.   She is one of a special breed of California wine entrepreneurs who buy grapes and rent wine-making space for aging their wines.

12.   Should anyone care to age these wines, the people who make them would not object.

13.   Some producers age the wines in their tawnies separately, blending them only when they think each component wine is at its best.

14.   Tannins come from grape stems, seeds and skins as well as wood tannins from aging the wine in oak barrels.

15.   The wine was aged for two years.

16.   The wines were aged in these casks for eight years then transferred to large glass jugs to age further on the roof, in the sun.

17.   They cut yields to add intensity to their grapes and many of them began fermenting and aging their wines in expensive new wood.

18.   They use more skin contact during fermentation to extract more color and tannin, and they are aging the wine longer, either in large casks or in barrels.

19.   Traditionally, Spanish white wines were aged in wood, just like the reds.

20.   Ageing the wine is also essential.