Tips on How to Store Wines
Once the clear
wine has been bottled and if you want to keep it for more than three months, it
is very much important to know that corks dry out. If it happens then the shrinkage
can cause the sealing-wax to crack, causing tiny air holes to appear and wild
yeast & bacteria could attack the wine.
It is necessary
to store all bottles that are fitted with ordinary corks or cork wine
stopper on your sides. This will allow the wine to keep the cork moist
(which prevents shrinkage). You can store rubber-banded screw-stopper bottles
upright.
As people know
that wine should be stored at a constant temperature throughout the year, they
go to much trouble and dream up all sorts of ingenious devices to achieve that
end. The division of authorities is done according to their opinions as to the
ideal temperature in which wines should be stored.
This is most
likely because of wines (like human beings) like what suits them best. As we know
that for certain types of wine there is an ideal temperature, but what suits
the Eskimo does not suit the Australian aborigine, and this is something that
will never change.
No matter if
there occurs temperature change, the bottle stopper experience no harm.
They survive on it brilliantly.
It is very much
necessary that rapid changes are avoided. Of course, (as with human beings), it
will be quite better if we can store our wines on a stone floor. If it is not
possible to do this then a cupboard on the north side of a building will do its
work except a chimney does not run through it.
There are many
bottles of wines which become very hot in the summer and nearly freeze in the
winter. However, these wines do not experience any kind of harm. So, store your
wines wherever you want and don't worry as you have cork stopper.
If you are
serving home-made wines then it is always better to serve them at room
temperature. Champagnes should always be served cellar-cool or iced.
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