The following two weeks were a mellowing down time.
By the time she reached the chicken coop, her fit of temper was mellowing.
This is the mellowing process and it seems the more patient you are the mellowing process and it seems the more patient you are the mellower the cheese.
Much of the characteristic flavour of Madeira is due to this practice, which hastens the mellowing of the wine and also tends to check secondary fermentation inasmuch as it is, in effect, a mild kind of pasteurization.
In the case of maturation in bottle the most prominent features are the mellowing of the somewhat hard taste associated with new wine and the development of the secondary bouquet.