Buyers ask such question most often on the eve of big holidays or solemn events: weddings, anniversary, birthday. And there is it because that champagne – special drink, a festive look which is given vials of carbon dioxide they also significantly shorten its suitability.
The expiration date is the first what the attention has to be paid upon purchase of the necessary drink to. The thing is that sparkling wines to which champagne belongs can be spoiled much quicker than other alcoholic beverages.
The period of storage of champagne includes time during which taste of wine, its properties declared the producer remain invariable. And as wine material contains carbon dioxide, its qualities worsen pretty fast.
It is possible to learn an expiration date, having read an inscription on the label. But reliable this date will be only in one case – if drink was stored with observance of all rules: at the necessary lighting, humidity of air and temperature.
How to store champagne
The correct storage of champagne means horizontal arrangement of bottles in the dark cool basement at a temperature of 10-12 °C. Ventilation has to be very good, and the humidity – isn't lower than 75%.
Only under such circumstances the expiration date of drink can make 3 years. But most often the producer is insured, and specifies much a smaller expiration date – only a year.
Except elite shops, outlets can't provide to champagne of due storage. As a rule, bottles with drink are in trading floors with lighting, unsuitable for them, and temperature. And therefore finding of sparkling wine in shops promptly reduces the term of its validity.
Whether champagne lost the suitability it is possible to define, having only uncorked a bottle and having tasted it – good drink shouldn't taste bitter.
From all aforesaid it is possible to draw here such conclusions:
1. During purchase it is necessary to prefer as champagne which is produced later.
2. If drink was bought in retail network, then the term of its storage in house conditions shouldn't exceed month from the date of purchase.
3. By the way, if champagne is already opened, then it should be used within a day. At the same time it has to be surely closed by a stopper, otherwise its taste is lost almost instantly.