Optimal Wine Storage, Wine Consumption, And Wine Pairing

Optimal Wine Storage, Wine Consumption, And Wine Pairing

In order to go with your favorite meat, your favorite fish or salad. To celebrate a birthday or for your own pleasure, there is an wine for every occasion. Meal best friend and for everytaste, wine is a fine product which need a lot of precautions.

At Winecapitol, we know very well that wine is fragile andthat a lot of them are better after some years. Strorage condition is, in this case, crucial if you want to get the best of every bottles. In order to do so you need learn how to deal with the main ennemy,or friend of a wine bottle: heat.

Let’s break the secret directly, the best tempeture for lont-term aging wine is aroud 12°C (55°F). This temperature can be maintain in proper wine cellar or wine cooler as you can find on our website winecapitol.com. Your finest bottles are very sensitive to heat variation. 2°C above or below this optimal temparature, so a range between 10°C and 14°C (50°F – 57°F) is the maximum you can reach for the best long term storage conditions. Exceeded this mesures will impact your wine. If your bottles are below the ideal range, the development speed of your wine will decrease because the reactions inside the liquid will happen slower. And of course, if you reach the minimal point, your wine will be damage. At the opposite, if the temperature is too high, the reactions wil go too fast and the aging speed of your wine will increase. Which is going to alter the tast inevitably. The research shows that the maximum heat before negative long term effects is 21°C (70°F). If the wine is at these extreme temperature for too long, it may be spoiled or start to cooked developping raisiny or stewed taste.

It’s possible to keep your bottles in a natural environment, but it’s not recommended  if you don’t have a proper and perfect wine cellar. Because even if the temperature doesn’t exceed the maximum edges of the range, fast and repetitive heat variation will turn your wine into vinegar. We highly recommand, if you want to keep your wine in a proper room,that you use a cellar unit. This amazing tool (that you can find at winecapitol.com) will provide your room with the perfect temperature and humidity, recreating the atmosphere of the best French wine cellars. And if you don’t have a wine dedicated room, you need to use a wine bottle cooler. The goal is the same, recreating the perfect environment of humidity and temperature to please your favorite bottles as much as they deserve.

However, you may not want to do long-time aging and just want to keep your wine ready for the appropriate meal, or cheese degustation. In this case, there is also rules to respect. Each and every wine : red, white and rosé but also light, strong, champagne, dry, tannichas perfect degustation temperature where the taste will be at its full potential. In the big lignes, a red wine should be savor at a temperature around 15°C – 18°C (59°F – 64°C), a white wine between 8°C – 12°C (47°F – 53°F) same as rosé and a champagne should be served cold, around 7°C – 10°C (44°F – 50°F). But this is a generality, which fits most of the wine but we still advise you checked the ideal temperature for savor your wine.

So it’s also important to regulate correctly the temperature of your bottles if you want to do degustation storage. As every wine has a specific temperature range for optimal degustation, an amazing instrument for your wine is the dual zone wine cooler. This ultimate tool contains 2 separate zones with 2 different temperatures, which allows to store, ready to serve,for example red and white wine bottles at the same time!

When it comes to storage, you must also know that heat is not the only factor that can damage your wine bottles. Wine is sensitive to light, vibration and humidity. So the best you can do is : to keep your collection flat, with constant contact between the liquid and the cork, away from light without much movement and around a humidity level higher than 70%. It may seems a lot, but don’t worry. Every wine cooler that you can find on winecapitole.com have a UV filter glass doors, humidity regulation system and are also vibration proof. And if you store them in a cellar, you can go for the wine rack and cellar unit to make sure that the storage conditaion are the best. At winecapitol, our goal is to give the best to our client for them to have the best experience during their wine degustation. So every items you can find on our website are designed to take care of your wine the best way possible.

In order to go with your favorite meat, your favorite fish or salad. To celebrate a birthday or for your own pleasure, there is an wine for every occasion. Meal best friend and for everytaste, wine is a fine product which need a lot of precautions.

At Winecapitol, we know very well that wine is fragile and that a lot of them are better after some years. Strorage condition is, in this case, crucial if you want to get the best of every bottles. In order to do so you need learn how to deal with the main ennemy,or friend of a wine bottle: heat.

Let’s break the secret directly, the best tempeture for lont-term aging wine is aroud 12°C (55°F). This temperature can be maintain in proper wine cellar or wine cooler as you can find on our website winecapitol.com. Your finest bottles are very sensitive to heat variation. 2°C above or below this optimal temparature, so a range between 10°C and 14°C (50°F – 57°F) is the maximum you can reach for the best long term storage conditions. Exceeded this mesures will impact your wine. If your bottles are below the ideal range, the development speed of your wine will decrease because the reactions inside the liquid will happen slower. And of course, if you reach the minimal point, your wine will be damage. At the opposite, if the temperature is too high, the reactions wil go too fast and the aging speed of your wine will increase. Which is going to alter the tast inevitably. The research shows that the maximum heat before negative long term effects is 21°C (70°F). If the wine is at these extreme temperature for too long, it may be spoiled or start to cooked developping raisiny or stewed taste.

It’s possible to keep your bottles in a natural environment, but it’s not recommended if you don’t have a proper and perfect wine cellar. Because even if the temperature doesn’t exceed the maximum edges of the range, fast and repetitive heat variation will turn your wine into vinegar. We highly recommend, if you want to keep your wine in a proper room, that you use a cellar unit. This amazing tool (that you can find at winecapitol.com) will provide your room with the perfect temperature and humidity, recreating the atmosphere of the best French wine cellars. And if you don’t have a wine dedicated room, you need to use a wine bottle cooler. The goal is the same, recreating the perfect environment of humidity and temperature to please your favorite bottles as much as they deserve.

However, you may not want to do long-time aging and just want to keep your wine ready for the appropriate meal, or cheese degustation. In this case, there is also rules to respect. Each and every wine : red, white and rosé but also light, strong, champagne, dry, tannic… has perfect degustation temperature where the taste will be at its full potential. In the big lignes:

A red wine should be savor at a temperature between 15°C – 16°C (59°F – 61°C) for the fruitiest and stronger ones and 16°C – 18°C (61°F – 64°C) for the more tannic.
A white wine should be drink between 8°C – 10°C (47°F – 53°F) for the driest, same as rosé and between 10°C – 12°C (50°F – 53°F) for the sweetes ones.
And champagne should be served cold, between 7°C – 10°C (44°F – 50°F) and between 10°C – 13°C (50°F – 55°F) for the more exceptionnal ones.

But this is a generality, which fits most of the wine but we still advise you checked the ideal temperature for savor your wine.

So it’s also important to regulate correctly the temperature of your bottles if you want to do degustation storage. As every wine has a specific temperature range for optimal degustation, an amazing instrument for your wine is the dual zone wine cooler. This ultimate tool contains 2 separate zones with 2 different temperatures, which allows to store, ready to serve, for example red and white wine bottles at the same time!

When it comes to storage, you must also know that heat is not the only factor that can damage your wine bottles. Wine is sensitive to light, vibration and humidity. So the best you can do is : to keep your collection flat, with constant contact between the liquid and the cork, away from light without much movement and around a humidity level higher than 70%. It may seems a lot, but don’t worry. Every wine cooler that you can find on winecapitole.com have a UV filter glass doors, humidity regulation system and are also vibration proof. And if you store them in a cellar, you can go for the wine rack and cellar unit to make sure that the storage conditaion are the best. At winecapitol, our goal is to give the best to our client for them to have the best experience during their wine degustation. So every items you can find on our website are designed to take care of your wine the best way possible.

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