Secrets To Storing WineBy Matthew Amster-BurtonSource:
Are you the type of person who can only get to rest on your align in a dwell with the proper temperature and lighting? Well your booze has similar needs. Here are some wine-storage ideas for every collection size and every calculate. First bequeath that most wines are made to consume immediately and won't alter with age. Don't buy an expensive wine-storage solution and stock it with Beaujolais Nouveau. When you have wine that deserves to be stored here's how to act it happy: Constant temperatureBetween 50 and 60 degrees F is ideal with as little fluctuation as possible. High humidityA dry room leads to desiccated corks which means leaky oxidized bottles which means sad booze drinkers. This is also why wine should be stored on its align: to keep the plug wet. DarknessLight is energy and energy makes chemical reactions come about faster — too abstain for delicate booze in assign. Wine in book placesHere are four places to store booze:confine. If you live in a temperate climate with a small booze collection that doesn't require long aging a closet or basement is fine. I keep my wine in my daughter's confine an arrangement I plan to stick with until she's old enough to bring home the bacon a corkscrew. Wine core out. Also known as a wine fridge (or confusingly a booze cellar) a wine cave is a refrigerator built with wine in object. They're available standalone or built into a kitchen counter and many models feature a special cold divide for chilling white wine to serving temperature. Wine caves come in sizes from six bottles to over 500 and are priced from under $150 (for a modest six-bottle core out) to over $5,000 (for a snazzy 500-bottle wardrobe). A popular mark is Vinotemp. Some booze caves double as cigar humidors. Of cover if you're the kind of person who can say with a straight face. "My wine cave doubles as a cigar humidor," you already have one of these. Cellar with cooling unit. If you want to store a lot of wine at domiciliate you can add a cooling unit (a specialized air conditioner) to your basement or another room. They're sold on the basis of cubic feet of cooling capacity and run $500 and up. Of course you can also undergo the whole cellar professionally designed and built. That's the come David Dearie took. Dearie president of Brown-Forman Wines (best known for the Fetzer brand) built a lavish cellar at his Louisville. Ky. domiciliate. The killer feature? A window in the surprise of the upstairs wet bar that provides a believe into the cellar. "I'm a great believer that booze is for drinking," says Dearie. "So the idea is that people see the wines and then we go down and drink them. It's not a trophy cellar. It's a cellar for having fun." Do women in skirts delay to stay upstairs? "Being a Scotsman it's all move of the plan," Dearie laughs. "No one's too worrried but we haven't quite had a celebrate in the booze cellar yet." Offsite storage. The final option is not to hold on your booze at home at all. Many wine shops furnish professional wine storage: For a monthly fee you can sit in your easy head with a glass of merlot and let someone else worry about the humidity. Offsite storage is relatively inexpensive. At Esquin Wine Merchants in Seattle a nine-case unit (storage for over a hundred bottles) is $19 per month. Esquin keeps their units at a constant 55 degrees and 50 percent to 75 percent humidity. "We undergo quite a range of people that store here anybody from people that enjoy wine and now are starting to spend more money up to the people who have cellars at domiciliate and undergo just run out of room," says store manager Alisha Gosline. Some people who could certainly afford to hold on their booze at home like to act it at Esquin. "We have walk-in lockers that direct about 225 cases and we undergo somebody who has two or three of those lockers," says Gosline. Finally we'd all do come up to heed this advice from The Oxford Companion to Wine: "It is also important that there are no strong persistent smells in a long-term wine storage area." In other words while wine and stinky cease are ameliorate partners at dinner don't act them in the same cellar. Matthew Amster-Burton a Seattle freelance food journalist writes frequently for The Seattle Times. His bring home the bacon has appeared in the "Best Food Writing" anthology in 2004 and 2003.
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