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I find the simple 20-minute rule works well. Pull out a refrigerated bottle of white 20 minutes prior to drinking or serving, and refrigerate red for 20 minutes before. It's that simple.
Although, I often just drink everyday stuff at room temperature. If you store wine in your basement, this works even better.
I should admit I am snobby about the cork. I do like the idea of a cork and have never bought a bottle without a cork. Oddly enough, at the same time, I like the idea of decent/everyday quality wine in a bladder.
Wow, I refrigerate red wine because it always seemed to taste better. I guess I stumbled onto orthodoxy.
Likely because the wine is/was crap. The cold deadens the taste of wine because much of the "flavor" of wine comes through the olfactory sense. Alcohol evaporation is slowed when the wine is cold, so less of the aromatics are able to hitch a ride... with bad wine, that's a good thing.
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LOL, drinking from a juice glass takes away from the sophistication.
This reminds me of an old friend whose grandfather added ice to his boxed wine.
If I was forced to drink boxed wine, I'd probably ice it down too.
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Proper stemware helps keep the wine at a steady temperature and the shape of the bowl/globe enhances the wine tasting experience. Wine glasses have the shape that they do for a few very good reasons. There is nothing pretentious about it. If you drink good wine from a juice glass, you might as well drink directly from the bottle.
I should admit I am snobby about the cork. I do like the idea of a cork and have never bought a bottle without a cork.
That's another idea whose time has passed. The latest technology for screw on caps is every bit as good, and in some ways superior to traditional corks. And with more and more good wines coming to market with screw caps, it's no longer something to avoid.
And it's just in time, since the cork harvest required in order to supply the expanding world market for better wines is unsustainable.
That's another idea whose time has passed. The latest technology for screw on caps is every bit as good, and in some ways superior to traditional corks. And with more and more good wines coming to market with screw caps, it's no longer something to avoid.
And it's just in time, since the cork harvest required in order to supply the expanding world market for better wines is unsustainable.
some very good wines are now being made using screw caps instead of cork. I would take that anyday over the stupid plastic corks many companies are using...You seem to know your wines.
I admit to having a little drinkie of wine from a juice glass. Those are on the days where I am not about enjoying the experience but trying to relieve stress from a bad day.
I find the simple 20-minute rule works well. Pull out a refrigerated bottle of white 20 minutes prior to drinking or serving, and refrigerate red for 20 minutes before. It's that simple.
Although, I often just drink everyday stuff at room temperature. If you store wine in your basement, this works even better.
This is what I do. White taste better with the edge of the chill off and red taste better at basement temperature.
My favorite glass is the Maker's Mark rock glass that has lost it's red wax I have stemware--for whites, reds, sparkling, etc., but prefer my MM glass.
This is what I do. White taste better with the edge of the chill off and red taste better at basement temperature.
My favorite glass is the Maker's Mark rock glass that has lost it's red wax I have stemware--for whites, reds, sparkling, etc., but prefer my MM glass.
interesting: I can understand the white but red to me has to be room temp.
My parents got my SO a gag gift when he passed his CPA exams...a nice bottle of wine (not a gag), and a "Ozark wine glass" (the joke being that we live in Missouri, though not the Ozarks)...a lidded mason jar fused to a stem/ goblet pedestal. I have seen him drink soda out of it, being silly.
some very good wines are now being made using screw caps instead of cork. I would take that anyday over the stupid plastic corks many companies are using...You seem to know your wines.
Yep, screw tops no longer really have the stigma (and boxed wine is climbing out of its tacky former rep, too). And those plastic corks suck.
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I have stemware--for whites, reds, sparkling, etc., but prefer my MM glass.
