Storing Wine?!
Storing Wine?
How can you tell if a particular wine should be consumed right away or if it can be stored?
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Virtually all wine is ready to drink on release. It will keep well for a couple of years, but it can be drunk.
The only point of keeping wine is when it is a type of wine that improves in bottle with aging. There are fewer of these; they tend to be the expensive wines, they tedn to come from specialist wine merchants and they tend to be bought by people who know that they need aging.
There is a prevelent myth that not only is all wine better when old, but it is more valuable. Neither are true in 99.9% ofcases.
You mention a particular wine; tell us its details and we can be more precise.
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http://www.cellarnotes.net/howlongtohold...
That site has a great chart illustrating how long each different variety of wine should be stored.
A good basic rule of thumb is, if it was cheap drink it right away.
If it is unopened, store it. Never store wine that has been opened. Always store wind with the bottles laying down on their sides, so the cork does not get dried out.
I have always been told that reds are best aged 1990 are great, while 2000s are best for whites.
Always store your wine horizontally with the label facing up so you can see any sediment build up when you decant it.
Always choose a cool dark place with a consistent temperature and low vibration to store your wine. While a 55 to 58 degree cellar temperature is optimum, a 60 to 65 degree quiet corner will do fine for short term storage (2 - 3 years). Remember, the warmer the storage, the quicker the wine will mature and then deteriorate,
is it opened,then serve it to me fast . Forget the storing .
Wines that are meant to be drunk straight away now have screw caps and not corks. If you mean once their opened, they will keep for up to 4 days for red if recorked and put in a cool,dark spot and white wine about the same but in the fridge.