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.