Do you like your red wine Light, Fruity or Big?
PLEASE NOTE: YOU NEED TO OPEN RED WINES EARLY before starting to drink them.
Counsel of perfection: Rest upright for 1 month. Decant into decanter or bottle, using a candle to view wine moving out of bottle. Cut off flow before the sludge comes out. Allow up to 2 hours to breathe. The older the wine the less time it needs. The sludge has all the nasty tasting tannins in it.
There are 2 ways of storing your wine: upright, and lying down.
1 Upright is easier, both for pulling out the cork, and for decanting. As long as there is only a small gap between the top of the wine and the bottom of the cork, your wine will come to no harm.
2 People who have wine cellars store their bottles lying down. This position is harder for decanting from the bottle in a lying-down position! However it is useful to be able to do it, using a decanting cradle.
Red wines contain tannin, which gives the wine a bitter taste. As the wines age the tannin gradually falls out and forms a deposit. You can see that all the money you have paid for a red wine will be wasted unless you handle it properly.It is very much worthwhile taking the trouble. Resting upright for a MONTH before opening is a good idea, if you have not decanted a lying-down bottle.
PLEASE NOTE: YOU NEED TO OPEN RED WINES EARLY before starting to drink them.
Counsel of perfection: Rest upright for 1 month. Decant into decanter or bottle, using a candle to view wine moving out of bottle. Cut off flow before the sludge comes out. Allow up to 2 hours to breathe. The older the wine the less time it needs. The sludge has all the nasty tasting tannins in it.
There are 2 ways of storing your wine: upright, and lying down.
1 Upright is easier, both for pulling out the cork, and for decanting. As long as there is only a small gap between the top of the wine and the bottom of the cork, your wine will come to no harm.
2 People who have wine cellars store their bottles lying down. This position is harder for decanting from the bottle in a lying-down position! However it is useful to be able to do it, using a decanting cradle.
Red wines contain tannin, which gives the wine a bitter taste. As the wines age the tannin gradually falls out and forms a deposit. You can see that all the money you have paid for a red wine will be wasted unless you handle it properly.It is very much worthwhile taking the trouble. Resting upright for a MONTH before opening is a good idea, if you have not decanted a lying-down bottle.