Storing wine at the right temperature

It is very important to keep wine at a constant temperature. This is because the most harmful thing for storing wine are temperature fluctuations. By this we mean the rapid and extreme fluctuations. As an example, the living room: about 21 degrees during the day and 16 degrees at night, so the wine will go from 16 to 21 degrees every day. The temperature fluctuations and excessive storage temperature are disastrous for the wine.

 

The best temperature to keep wine is 12 degrees. Now without refrigeration, it is quite difficult to create a constant temperature of 12 degrees. We can put it a little more broadly, though. The ideal storage temperature for wine is between 10 and 14 degrees. This fact comes from the really good, natural wine cellars, where the temperature will be about 14 degrees in summer and around 10 degrees in winter. The gradient of the temperature is very gradual and thus does not harm the wine. Both 10 and 14 degrees are still good storage temperatures.

 

The general rule of thumb is: if you keep wine too cold, its development will be slower. If you keep the wine too warm, the development will be faster. However, both are not desirable for the proper development of the wine.

 

With rapid changes in temperature, the volume of wine in the bottle shrinks and expands again. If this happens frequently, the cork seal can break and oxygen can enter the bottle. If more oxygen gets to the wine than is desirable, the wine will oxidize more quickly.

 

Take an apple and cut it in half: the flesh shines, smells fresh, is crisp in texture and lively in flavor. But if you leave the halves for several hours, the apple turns brown and mealy and loses all fragrance and flavor. The apple is oxidized.

 

So the process of oxidation is actually a desirable process of the wine, therefore it actually improves it to a certain extent, but it should certainly not happen too quickly. With the right dose of oxygen, the wine will mature, evolve, become softer and more supple, and develop the desired aromas of "old" wine. If too much oxygen is added (in a short period of time or if the wine has been stored for far too long), you will get a flattening of aroma and taste, until nothing is left but sour juice ... vinegar.

 

With a wine cabinet from EuroCave you can set the desired storage temperature down to the degree. The wine cabinet then ensures that at an ambient temperature between 0 and 35 degrees the temperature inside the wine cabinet always remains constant.

 

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