Just the other day I enjoyed dinner of grilled (charcoal) steak, baked potato, and corn-on-the-cob with a 2001 Bordeaux blend of mine and I have to say it was REALLY good. It was not the fruit bomb that you can get from the "Left Coast", but something that can and did age well. You could tell from the color that it was not a young wine, but the color was still strong. It had just lost its youth. Could it reach twenty years? Maybe. It has the tannins and acids to do so. I still have about a case left. No, I did not make just 5 or 6 gallons, but 15. I use a beer (extremely well cleaned) half keg for blending. It works great for that. The real issues is: Don't drink it all in one year. Really!! Professional winemakers don't only drink their own wine. In fact they go out of their way to find wines that they have never heard of or have wanted to try. There is a phenomenon called: house palate. This is where you get used to what you have made and since it is the only thing that you drink, then it tastes good eventually, no matter how bad it is. By tasting other wines regularly, then you can be much more objective about your wine.
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