Wine East Features
Primer on Atypical Aging
In the history of describing wine aromas accurately, atypical aging, or ATA, has come to the scene as a relatively recent aroma characterization. Its first documented appearance dates to the 1980s in Germany. It is now recognized as one of the most serious quality problems in white winemaking in nearly all wine-producing countries, including the eastern growing region of North America.
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