Help with choosing cabinet color?

I am debating between medium toned cherry cabinets, with a glaze. (I will have new venetian gold granite countertops.) Have determined that natural cherry is a little light for me...but not sure how dark to go. Should I go a little lighter than what I like in anticipation of the cherry going darker? Or will the darker stain pretty much stay the same? Are the samples typically already the darker color? (The samples are a few years old).