|
|
| |
| Storing
Wines
Especially
in South-East Asia, the climate is not recommended to store
wine. But there exists some solutions Ewineasia.com has found
for you to store your wines properly. Except buying your wine
right before drinking it, it's almost impossible for you to
have it at home in the perfect serving temperature except
if you have some tools to preserve it. What happens if you
have an opened bottle? You won't force yourself to drink it
just to avoid the natural oxidation that occurs normally within
two days when you keep your bottle open. We
propose two types of tools below for you to store your wine
in the best conditions.
|
|
| |
Learn
more about the different sizes of wine and Champagne bottles.
From half-bottle to Nabuchodonosor or Imperial or even Jeroboam.
Click below to learn how they're called.
Click
here |
|
|
Never
mind if you want to keep wine for your private collection, for
investment or for drinking, keeping wine is always a good deal.
In fact, your wine will improve and your cost will plunge. Indeed
an old vintage is always more expensive than a young wine or
a primeur. The only things you need in order to keep wine
are patience and a proper place to store it. Nevertheless, not
all wines require to get ages to enhance its aromas, flavor
and taste... Here is an overview of time that wine needs to
reach its peak. Don't hesitate to refer to the vintage chart
where you find all vintage description and indication to keep
or drink wines from all over the world.
The following classification gave you an idea of the good age
properties of some wines :
 |
| Vins
de pays |
Provence
Midi
as Herault and Corbieres
Cahors
Bordeaux
Petits chateaux
Burgundy
of light vintage
Beaujolais
Loires
German
QbA wines
Italian
and Spanish Red |
Medoc
Saint
Emilion
Fronsac
Pomerol
Burgundy
premier crus
Germany
QmP
Italian
and Spanish Riserva Gran Riserva
Cabernet
Sauvignon
Shiraz
|
Medium
quality Burgundies
Chateauneuf
and Rhone
Classed
Bordeaux
Top
Barolo
Rioja
reservas
The
best vini di tavola
Best
Australian shiraz and semillon |
Top
Burgundy grand cru
Classified
Growth Bordeaux
Rhone
Vintage
Port
Richest
QmP |
|
vins de table
vins
de pays
Muscadet
except from wine estates Cote du Rhone Provence
Bergerac Gaillac |
Most
whites wines
Good
quality Muscadet
Sancerre
Pouilly Chablis
Regional
Burgundies AOC wines, most Alsace, most Bordeaux
Champagne
Italian
and Spanish whites
Chardonnays
Sauvignon
|
Alsace
Loires
except Vouvray and Chenin Blanc
High
quality Burgundies
Graves
Sauternes
Jurancon
Vintage
Champagne
Top
Chardonnays |
Best
graves and Sauternes (Chateau d'Yquem....)
Vouvray
and Chenin Blanc
Selection
de grains nobles Alsace
Top
burgundies
Best
vintage of Champagne
Eiswein
Auslesen
|
Best
Sauternes
Sweet
Loire wines
Burgundy
Grand cru |
|
| |
 |
| Wines
that should be drunk young, within a year |
Wines
that need a short period in bottle to emerge. Keep
it 1-3 years |
Wines
that mature in bottle for 3-5 years |
Wines
that require 5 -8 years to reach its peak |
Wines
of real investment which need 8 and more years |
|
Wine
Storage Conditions
If
you want to keep a wine for more than few weeks, you need to store it
in proper conditions. The basic wine storage conditions are constant temperature,
darkness and stillness for wines next comes a high degrees of humidity
and a good ventilation. Obviously, your wine must be protected from smells
that can harm the original taste of the wine but a cellar is not compulsory
even if it is one of the unique place where all the perfect conditions
are gathered.
Check the following variables to
create your own cellar :
Temperature
|
The
range can be 5 to 18 degrees (41-64 degrees Fahrenheit) but the
optimal temperature is around 10-12 degrees. Actually most important
is the fluctuation of temperature wine must face and time in-between
these fluctuations occur. For example if a wine shifts slowly from
an ambient temperature to 15 degrees, there is no big deal but a
brusk temperature change from 28 to 15 degrees can damage your wine
because the liquid inside the bottle expands and contracts depending
on the climate. |
Humidity
|
The
main point is to prevent label (and eventually corks) from rot in
case of high humidity or prevent cork from drying out in case of
low humidity. The perfect level of humidity is 75-80%. See our Label
removers if you want to keep labels in their own. |
Light
|
Sparkling
and white wines are particularly sensible to light. Ensuring the
cellar is dark can become essential if you store big quantities
of Sparkling and white wines. You can use artificial light that
enables a practical access and harms less the wine. |
Vibration
|
A
risk when you decide to store red wine is to accelerate the creation
of deposits. Vibration can stimulate the formation of sediments
inside the bottles that is why you should store your wine far from
domestic devices, touristy roads or any place where vibrations are
significant. |
Oxygen
|
Ventilation
is crucial to guarantee a constant temperature inside the cellar.
Moreover it avoids smell to settle and fungus to develop. |
Angle
of storage
|
Your
bottle must be stored horizontally labels placed uppermost to keep
the cork moist and protect the Label from damages. |
|
Wine
Preservation |
 |
Preserve
open bottles from spoliation. What a pity to
throw away remaining wine when you can preserve
it for months. Two products can help you keep
your open |
| bottles;
wine pump with special stopper and private
preserve with the original cork.The first
one enables you to remove air from the bottle
so that it delays spoliation of the wine.
The latter is a spray which replace the air
in the bottle by inert gazes used by wineries
in their making-process so that the gaze works
as a protective layer for the wine which can
be kept for months. Please have a look at
our preservation accessories in our catalog.
Wine
Pump |
|
|
|