ageing like a fine wine
Better with time
Ageing like a fine wine describes someone or something that improves with time rather than declining.
Just as certain wines develop richer, more complex flavors over years of careful storage, a person ageing like a fine wine grows more attractive, distinguished, or capable: He's ageing like a fine wine—somehow handsomer at fifty than at thirty.
The phrase is almost always complimentary, often with a hint of flirtation.
- wisdomGood judgment from experience
- old soulPerson inexplicably mature
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
- silver foxAppealing older gentleman
- experiencePractical knowledge from life
getting better · heritage · sophistication · vintage · maturation · oak barrel · tradition · ripening · mellowing · patience · deepening · fermentation · resilience · poise · enrichment · distillation · timelessness · craftsmanship
ageing like a fine wineageing like milk
Becoming worse over time
going downhill · deteriorating · declining · going to seed · past one's prime
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