Blended wine is good to drink but not a keeper.
Huh? Since when? Does that mean people should just go and dump all those old bottles of Chateau Lafite Rothschild that they've been saving? hahahaha. Some if not the majority of the oldest and most treasured wines in existence are blends.
Oh, and that wine is ready to drink right now. You could save it for a few years if you wanted to though. I would probably just open it the next time you have someone over who likes wine. If you decide to save it for a while, store it on it's side rather than straight up in the closet. It's not one of those wines you save for 25 years or anything like that. A lot of people think that wine only gets better with age but that's not usually the case. Only a very tiny percentage of wine is made to be saved for decades. Most of it is meant to be opened within a year or less (like box wines and inexpensive table wines). Then there's a good percentage that will initially get better to a certain point but then go downhill after reaching that point. I sold wine for a little over 6 years and I've heard tons of strange myths about it, especially the ones about that stupid 2 buck chuck stuff. I'd say 99% of what people think they know about 2 buck chuck is completely false. The whole wine scene is silly anyways and full of snobbery. I'm more of a beer guy myself.
