That definitely answers the housing and axe question, so thank you!
Yes, my game is up to date for patches, though I didn't do the patches during the time when WA came out so does that matter? And Origin is also updated. I don't do mods on my game, only store content so I don't have issues there. I put them in a basement on nectar racks (i've tried every level of basement to see if maybe that was an issue) still no luck with the aging. The price increases as time goes on but the bottles only ever age in the nectar maker. Which is kind of hard to explain, but when I make nectar, it doesn't start out at week 1, when I'm say 5 weeks into playing my family, it just starts at week 5 when it comes out of the nectar maker but never ages after that.