Discover when particular wines should be served and how to serve them.
Preparation of the bottle
How you choose to open a bottle
The operation to open
Decanters
How to decant
Temperature
The Glasses
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Preparation of the bottle
For the wine to cool down (rose, white), the difficulty is
to keep the bottle lower than room temperature. Get is out at the last moment,
put it in an ice bucket ½ hour in advance it will be soon enough. We can also
put the bottle for a little while in a refrigerator. Don’t leave a bottle in a
refrigerator for several days.
To establish the right temperature for the wine, from the
wine cellar to the table, in particular red wine (55-59), the best way it is to
bring the wine room temperature early in the morning. It is worst to bring a
bottle to apartment temperature (60-70) is higher than wine temperature should
be for drinking. A bottle which is too hot will be dominated by alcohol,
unbalanced and it will lose all its characteristics.
How you choose to open a bottle
Everyone agrees generally today that in most cases wine may
be drunk soon after the bottle is opened.
Don’t be confuse about a opening a bottle and putting the
wine in a carafe where the effects of the wine will be different regarding
aeration and oxidation.
Putting young wine in a carafe can help it to express itself
better and blossom in taste. Putting an old wine in a carafe can unbalance the
taste and break the wine.
The operation to open
An examination of the cork will give us an idea of the wine
quality, like its smell can communicate to us what the taste of the wine will
be like. The operation of opening is to remove the metal part, at the middle of
the bottle neck in order to avoid the fall of metal parts into the wine. Cleaning
the bottle neck after the opening and e4xtracting the cork will be the main
part of having a good presentation of serving the wine.
Decanters
This operation is following by different rules which are
explained by scientist. It is like a racking which is utilized to clarify wine
to age in a barrel. It is to extract all the deposit.
For the old red wine, you can decant only to clarify the
wine so your guest will not have deposit in their glasses.
Some basic notions
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Decant only when you can see deposit
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Decant at the last moment, but rarely few hours
before to drink it (especially for old wine.).
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Decant before to drink it when you found a
default (weak nose or without nose; small effervescence)
How to decant
Decant in your wine cellar when it is a very old wine which
you can’t transport easily without disturbing the wine. You need a carafe and a
candle.
Remember
The cork life is only 25 years maximum. You should have
change the cork if you want to keep your wine longer… oops I need to do that.
Temperature
Apartment Temperature
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77
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76
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75
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74
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66
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Cabernet
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64
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Bordeaux Red
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63
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Pinot Noir
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61
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Burgundy
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59
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58
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Chardonnay
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57
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Burgundy white
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56
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55
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Red wine light
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54
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Beaujolais
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53
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Sauvignon Blanc
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52
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White wine dry
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51
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Ideal Cellar
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50
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48
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Champagne
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46
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Alsace, Chablis
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45
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Sweet white wines
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43
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Sauterne
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41
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39
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The Glasses
There’s no shame in using the same all-purpose wine glasses
for both reds and whites, but if you have the cabinet space, it’s nice to have dedicated
glasses for red wine (the kind with broader bowls and rims), white wine
(somewhat taller and narrower) and sparkling wine (tall, thin flutes) —
not to mention small dessert wine glasses, if you’re into that sort of thing.
These shapes are not only a matter of aesthetics and tradition; they can
actually influence taste and aroma.
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