Our version of the wine of beers and fable, The Birds and the Beast, is a great analogy to what it actually is beer or wine!  Its clearly beer as its made from 100% Full Pint barley Estate Grown and Malted in Madras Oregon by Mecca Malt and Seth Klann's' Team. Our goal from the out set is to achieve about 21.5 to 22.5 Plato or percent sugar without boiling for an extended time thus we use double the malt needed for most our other beers by doing a double mash and sparging very little.  The malt is paired with our local Centennial Hop from Clear Lake to balance the high gravity.  We use a low impact yeast for maximum malt / hop expression without a lot of yeast driven character and ferment really dry which we prefer over the sweeter examples out there with higher final gravities... leaving the style guidelines to rest we took a more wine focused approach.  We aged all of our Barley Wines in Hungarian Oak with lots 83, 86 and 88 in New Barrels.  As far as age worthiness this beer (or wine) clocks in at 9.5 to 11% Alcohol by Volume and should show well in to its years.