My suggestion in the sense that it is more amicable for the customer.

reading into my native Swiss

I'd say -- easier to come by

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Note added at 2 hrs (2006-02-22 19:06:56 GMT)
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Just as I was about to lean toward Andrew's suggestion, I did some more research and found the following, among many others:

The new-style Barolo makers macerate their juice for only a few days and then age the wine in small French oak barrels. This yields wines that are more accessible at an earlier age, with lush fruit and softer tannins.
http://www.azcentral.com/home/wine/articles/0202barolo02.htm...


Barolo comes from five major communes southwest of Alba, where the hills are, for the most part, higher and steeper than those of Barbaresco, a smaller region northeast of the city. Barbaresco's climate is warmer and drier than Barolo's, so its grapes ripen earlier and generally result in a more accessible, less tannic wine. Barolo's grapes generally ripen later and producea wine with a bigger structure and tannins that are more difficult to tone down, requiring patience on the part of both the vintner (who must age the wine for two years in wood and one year in bottle) and the buyer.
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/piedmont-on-top


French oak is used, but less than 30 percent is new, which keeps the wood from being dominant. Instead, the wood is seamlessly woven in. It makes the wine prettier, so much more accessible. See if you can pick out the unusual nutmeg/brown spice notes.
http://info.detnews.com/wine/columns/silfven/details.cfm?id=...


Pale green-tinged yellow. Aromas of lime, lemon, licorice and fresh herbs. Fat, layered and sweet, with pepper and spice notes. Distinctly more accessible today and easier to taste than the comparatively backward Montee de Tonnerre, and not quite as long on the aftertaste.
http://www.wineaccess.com/expert/tanzer/article.html?content...

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Just one more:

I'm not sure how much it's going to evolve, but it should certainly improve with age as it opens up and becomes more accessible. Not cheap, but still well worth buying.
http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=4782&iNote=11752...

Try googling wine + oak + aged "more accessible", then try substituting "more approachable" and "more palatable" ...