In light strike, nice smell compounds decrease and bad smelling ones increase. It takes just a week on super market shelves in clear glass bottles to ruin the aromatic bouquet of the wine. Computers could tell the difference between clear bottled wine and green glass bottled wine after two weeks. The really delicate, non aromatic wines are the ones that you have to worry about.
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