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Question: Why with time do white wines get darker but red wines get lighter?
Answer: Oxygen slowly works on the lower phenolics of white wine which starts out the palest it will ever be but becomes darker over time. Red wine because of the longer vinification of the grape juice with the skins etc. contains much more phenolics than white that with aging comes together falling out as sediment making the deeper red colour shown early on now look lighter.
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