The preservation of a good bottle of wine is always extremely important, especially if you want to buy a wine and wait for the time to reach the perfect ripeness and taste it at best moment. Not everyone knows that each wine has its own life cycle that depends on a multitude of factors, of all the varieties used to make it, the production area, the vintage, the wine making and the possible aging in barrels. This means that each wine, like a man, will live a youth, in which it is still immature, angular and not perfect to drink, followed by a phase of maturity, in which the wine expresses the most of all its potential and final, finally, a phase of old age, in which the wine constantly tends to weaken and lose its peculiar characteristics to become expressionless. This applies certainly for wines with long aging potential but also for wines which are ready to drink, knowing estimate the right time of the opening and above all have the ability to wait is fundamental to ensure the maximum opening of any wine.
From the above we realize how important it is to preserve the best wine to allow optimal tasting in its phase of full maturity and avoid ugly surprises when long-awaited opening of the bottle.
An ideal cellar of wine storage should be made possible in an underground room at least 4 meters deep, possibly facing north; It must have a constant temperature between 10 ° and 15 ° C, humidity of around 60-70%, to be almost no vibration and noise, to have little or no natural light and artificial lighting lamps made through screens. Avoid storing other goods (cheese, cold cuts, fuel, etc.) In the same cellar because the stopper cork could absorb odors and then you could alter the wine.
Owning a winery that reflects all these optimum conditions is a very rare good lucky and, therefore, advise you to follow a few simple rules housewives to preserve better wine at home, even with no basement, trying to get as close as possible to the ideal conditions. Surely you must avoid the kitchen (it is usually a warm place and filled the perfume of our food), penthouses and lofts (very wide variations in temperature), garage (engine vibrations and large temperature fluctuations), terraces (extreme temperature and light intense) or adjacent pantries to sources of light and / or heat. Ideal would be to use as a room or a simple built-in storage cellar; we should have the foresight to turn off or reduce to a minimum the homemade heating of this room and store wines within cabinets in the dark or even closed cardboard boxes to fix the light. It is necessary that the bottles are laid horizontally in such a way that the cap remains always in contact with the liquid; otherwise over the years the cork would risk losing its elasticity thus allowing air to enter in contact with the wine and oxidize it.
These housewives attentions allow you to minimize, but not eliminate, the risk that a wine can ruin over the years for poor maturation in unsuitable premises. Our suggestion is what you intend to invest in particularly precious bottles to be kept at home is to invest also on the purchase of a good electrical cellar; the best maintain temperature, humidity and degree of ideal light; usually they are equipped with a special absorption refrigeration system that are devoid of motor and compressor, which would cause noise and annoying vibration. These wine cellars simulate an ideal storage and wine professional in time and ensure the proper evolution.
In conclusion to be sure to uncork a good bottle of wine you have to follow a series of adroitness, summing up in a very short we can identify three main points. First and foremost you have to buy a good wine recommended and possibly also professionally preserved at a retailer that ensure adequate conservation (Webdivino guarantee optimal and professional storage of all the wines and food products that we sell on webdivino. it and in our shop in Rome, Enoteca Lucantoni). According to properly store the bottle in his home cellar for a suitable number of years in order to avoid infanticide of important bottles or even worse, too wait and find a wine that has lost its vitality (on the board of the wines of webdivino.it always denote a period of maximum where you uncork the wine, but you can always write to us or call us for specific advice, even for bottles that you have not purchased from us). The third point is the service or how to uncork the bottle, at what temperature to serve different types of wine and glass used to better enhance the tasting. On this last point, we refer to the details in our next article on your blog.
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