How can you distinguish a wine intended for early drinking from one meant for long aging based on style cues such as fruit, acidity, tannin, and aroma development?

How can you distinguish a wine intended for early drinking from one meant for long aging based on style cues such as fruit, acidity, tannin, and aroma development?

• A. Early-drinking wines show bright fruit, higher acidity, and lighter body; long-aging wines have higher tannin/phenolics, balanced alcohol, and more pronounced tertiary aromas.
• B. Early-drinking wines are always high tannin; long-aging wines are always low tannin.
• C. There is no difference between early-drinking and long-aging wines.
• D. Early-drinking wines come from old vines only.

Answer: (A)