Today's useless fact - If I bought a bottle of wine today for $10 and kept it sealed for 50 years, would it be worth a lot more because of its age?

Not all wines improve with age. Those that do have an upper limit of age. It requires constant monitoring of the aging potential of wines to determine at which stage of maturity they are at at any given time. This monitoring can only be done by actually tasting the wines. The results of these wine tastings are closely followed by the wine press, and in turn by the wine investors, who use the data collected to determine in their own minds, the relative value of the wine.

The most important way to tell if your wine is ready to drink, is to taste a bottle. This seeming paradox is one of the best reasons to buy wine by the case. This basically means, that you would end up spending more than 10.00 in the long run, because in 50 years when that bottle is opened for its 'taste test'... you'd better have more on hand to sell, if it has improved and is worth lots of money... :)

Buy about 5 bottles and store them, do your first taste test in about 10 years, you would be able to tell a difference from its original bottling taste by that amount of time. That is IF you can remember in 10 years what it tasted like. I have a hard time remembering yesterday, let alone what something tasted like 10 years ago.

If it doesn't taste any different, just sit back and continue to drink. The buzz you would have would end up being worth the wait anyway! :)