A cladogram is a stylized diagram that looks like a series of Y's or forks in a road. At each branch, or Y junction, novel characters of evolutionary origin are used to separate off one group from the rest. Cladograms can be constructed for any group of organisms.
I checked with the bubbly brain on staff, Bruce Sanderson (who reviews Champagne for Wine Spectator), and he says, Champagne can age well. High acidity and carbon dioxide act as preservatives as it ages in the bottle prior to disgorgement. After disgorgement, Champagne will develop like a still wine. If the quality is high (i.e., an excellent vintage-dated bubbly) and it is well stored, Champagne is capable of long aging.
There are also two other wines â another cab and a zinfandel â aged in barrels once used for the classic American whiskey known as bourbon. To be perfectly clear, we are talking about wine aged in barrels once used to age whiskey. We are definitely not talking about any whiskey being added to wine. That would be simply outrageous. The use of whiskey barrels is unusual enough. It's not as if a winemaker has never used an old whiskey barrel to age wine.