Definition: complexity

A wine is automatically more or less complex, which does not mean that the word is useless. Among the two categories of wines, we find two types: young, fruity, easy-drinking wines whose aromas can be appreciated immediately; and wines of a certain age, often aged in oak, which transform over the years, developing evolving bouquets. With the former, you can easily guess the aromatic nature. The latter have a more difficult personality to pin down, rich, secretive, a combination of several blended aromas. It is these multiple aromatic characteristics that make a wine necessarily complex. The word complexity is therefore easy to put forward, but determining and analysing where this complexity comes from is another matter. As Bernard Pivot humorously puts it in his Dictionnaire amoureux du Vin: "But you can just say, with a beaming smile, that this wine is really good, and that's that!"