What all should you think about when serving wine? EuroCave gives you some useful tips for wine serving.
The right serving temperature
Serving wine the right way starts with the right serving temperature. Every wine has a temperature at which it is best served. Check here for serving temperature guidelines for most wines. With a wine cabinet with multi temperature zones, you will ensure that each wine is ready at the right drinking temperature.
The best wine glass
There are so many different wine glasses to choose from ... generally, a champagne glass is tall and narrow and a red wine glass is larger than a white wine glass. But there are many more different wine glasses to choose from for different wines. Take a look at the blog on the best wine glass to serve your wine.
The glass smells musty
The first piece of advice is to always store glasses with the chalice facing up, because a combination of paint, stagnant air and dust can make a glass smell musty. But should your wine glass still smell like wet dishcloth, put a bottom of wine in the glass, roll it around well, discard the wine and wash the glass again. Success assured.
Opening the wine bottle
Corkscrews come in many shapes and sizes. Pay particular attention to the spiral. Is it hollow? Does a match fit in it? Then it's fine. You open a champagne bottle as follows: after removing foil and muselet (iron wire) (be careful that the cork does not threaten to spontaneously shoot out of the bottle), clasp the stool firmly with the left hand. With the right hand, gently twist the bottle until you experience a back pressure in the left hand. You keep the cork pressed on the bottle and gently let a little air out of the bottle, so that the pressure will decrease. The trick is to uncork the bottle silently. It is necessary to hold the bottle at an angle to increase the liquid level to reduce spontaneous effervescence.
How do you remove a broken cork?
Very carefully screw the corkscrew into what is left of the cork. Make sure it is all the way in. Then pull the cork out of the bottle again very carefully. If the cork still crumbles, pour the wine through a strainer into a decanter.
Other way: press the remaining part of the cork further into the bottle (carefully!), then pour out through a strainer into a decanter.
Decanting or decanting
A very young wine will take on more flavor if it is decanted. There are special decanters in which a large amount of air is added to the wine while pouring it, so that the taste and smell are immediately optimal.
Do not confuse this with decanting old wines with a lot of sediment. You do this purely to prevent sediment from entering the wine glass during pouring. Decanting an old wine can be disastrous, so don't confuse the two.
What to do about "particles" in the wine?
First, let's better define the "particle" to be named. We mean tartar crystals or sediment/deposit. Both harmless to the wine and to you, but don't want them in the glass? Then leave the bottle of wine upright overnight and pour carefully until the particle threatens to come out. Pouring through a decanter funnel with a strainer is, of course, also possible.
Without spilling
When pouring the wine, make sure not to drop a drop on your guest's pants ... you can prevent this by pouring with a twisting motion, keeping a cloth handy to wipe off the bottle or using a drop stopper (available free of charge from EuroCave, while supplies last) or drip ring.
Wine Etiquette
Have you tasted the wine yourself? If not, ask one of the guests to do so (a big sip will do). You pour the wine to your guest's right. You hold the wine bottle by the bottom of the bottle, with the label facing your guest. Of course without tampering (see previous point). Do not pour the wine glass too full. A generous bottom will do, you can always fill the glass if it starts to get empty.
