To please noble wines, it is necessary to monitor their storage carefully. How to store? At what temperature and humidity? All this has huge value for flavoring properties of drink.
Where to store house wine?
If you have no vaulted cellar or a climatic case, wine should be stored in the most cool place of the apartment or the house. Besides, where it is possible, has to be dark and damp. It can also be under a ladder in the stairwell or at worst under the bed in the bedroom.
What ideal conditions for storage of wine?
Temperature has to be a constant between 8-12 °C during the whole year. The humidity of air has to be much higher (60-80%), than in normal climate, but not too damp. Eslivozdukh is too damp, labels on wine won't keep. Besides, the place has to be well aired, and wine has to be stored in the dark. Because light is extremely harmful to wine.
Whether special furniture for storage is necessary?
It is important not to forget about a wine maturity. The special shelf, of course, is very useful to storage of wine, but the boxes put at each other also well will be suitable for storage. Whether it is worth making out wines specially? The wine is the best of all to have on subject, origin, type on certain shelves. At professional wine makers old wines are below, and young people from above. Or you can put old wines back, and young people forward. However it has a shortcoming which is that it is difficult to see what occurs behind. The separate shelf is also necessary for wines which reached the peak because of a maturity and have to drink soon.
Whether there are differences in storage of wines for red, white or pink wines?
As for grades of white, red or pink wine, in storage there are no distinctions.
How it is long possible to store wine? There is approximate time?
Potential of storage or endurance depends on type of wine, its grade, a way of leaving and care for rods, process of aging and storage conditions. For example, the sweet, acidity and tannins promote increase in life expectancy of wines. Red wine has higher potential of endurance, than white wine and pink wine. For the same reason that oxidation is welcomed in red wines, but strongly deviates in white and pink. Noble sweet wines with extreme sweet and acidity can't be surpassed in terms of storage potential. On average, table red wines can be stored from 4 to 5 years, table white wines and pink wines from 2 to 3 years. Of course, always provided that storage conditions are optimum.
What can you store with wine? What isn't present?
Where wine is stored, it is impossible to leave on storage neither fruit, nor vegetables, nor other strongly smelling things, such as paints. Strong external smells can be transferred to wine. Even insignificant things have to be taken into account: the old washing machine which rotates can mean concern because of vibration for wine.
What will occur if wine is stored incorrectly?
At the wrong storage, wine will ripen too quickly (especially at constantly repeating fluctuations of temperature). Wines then have a smell, taste and appearance (red wine becomes brown, white wine becomes dark yellow). Wines can also receive "taste of light". It often happens to wines which too long were on "show-window". Generally it concerns some sparkling and white wines.