Wine storage at home
Wine is a noble drink and requires careful and respectful attitude. Full climatic comfort for storing wine can only create a wine cabinet or a wine refrigerator. In this article, we will justify the reasons for choosing a special technique for storing wine.
Content
- The constant temperature of wine storage is the key to its quality video
- Why wine is stored lying on its side
- How wine reacts to light
- How to provide vibration protection
- Wine temperature - when serving
- A variety of wine racks, design features video
The constant temperature of wine storage is the key to its quality
Basically, all ordinary residents store wine incorrectly.
The usual place for wine is a refrigerator, a balcony, a bar-cabinet.
The question is, why is it wrong?
But because wine is a living drink in which complex chemical processes of maturation are ongoing.
If this chemical process proceeds correctly, i.e. wine matures under the right conditions, then over time, the wine becomes better and more expensive.
If the wine is stored improperly, oxidation processes occur and the result is an acidic drink - chat.
The main condition for the proper storage of all alcohol-containing drinks is to maintain a constant temperature from +12 to + 14 * С.
Temperature spikes simply kill live wine.
Therefore, remember historical films that show deep cellars, often caves in the mountains where wine barrels were stored for a long time.
In these rooms, at a depth, naturally, in the absence of refrigeration units, a constant temperature was maintained.
Modern living conditions do not require the mandatory maintenance of a wine cellar.
Modern refrigerated wine cabinets come to the rescue.
These cabinets are sometimes called wine coolers.
Depending on the temperature of the wine cabinet, the cabinets are divided into single-temperature, two-temperature, three-temperature and multi-temperature.
A single-temperature cabinet is capable of changing the temperature from + 3 * С to + 22 * \u200b\u200bС. A feature of such a cabinet is a change in temperature to one digit immediately throughout the interior. In such a wine cabinet, as a rule, only one type of wine is stored and ripened.
A two-temperature refrigerator has two zones, each zone can have its own temperature, i.e. the first zone is separately cooled from the second.
A three-temperature refrigerator has three cooling zones with different temperatures.
There is also a multi-temperature cabinet, such a cabinet has six separate storage rooms. In this cabinet, you can store and cool different types of wine.
Wine cabinets are purchased depending on their needs.
With a two-temperature refrigerator, you can store red wines at + 18 * C, the usual storage location is the upper zone, in the lower zone, at a temperature of + 5 * C - store sparkling wine and champagne.
Some modern wine refrigerators have a Winter system: if the room temperature drops below the required temperature, the air inside the refrigerator heats up to the desired temperature on the shelves.
Why wine is stored lying on its side
The right wine should have the right cork - from the bark of a cork tree.
The cork, closing the bottle, creates a hermetic connection - a hermetic connection ensures the correct maturation of wine in the absence of air.
The lack of air does not let the wine sour.
But the cork itself is a living product and with prolonged storage of wine, the cork may dry out, in which case the air enters the bottle and the wine loses its quality.
For this reason, wine should be stored only in a horizontal position. The cork must always be wet, i.e. wet with wine.
Humidity should not be lower than 50%, but not higher than 75%.
At humidity over 80%, labels on bottles deteriorate, i.e. the presentation of the bottle is lost.
How wine reacts to light
Wine fermentation processes in the light proceed much faster.
The wine is quality when it grows old gradually.
To make the wine noble aged, it is bottled in dark glass.
If you have a desire to surprise your guests with quality, aged wine - you can speed up the aging process.
To speed up the process, you need to purchase a multi-temperature cabinet.
You can move wine bottles from compartment to compartment, taking into account the fact that the wine matures faster at temperatures above + 14 * C.
If you want to slow down the aging process, lower the temperature below + 10 * C.
Expensive wine cabinets are usually equipped with a blank door, but if you want to see your wealth and show it to your guests - get a cabinet with a glass door that is protected from ultraviolet radiation.
Illumination of wine cabinets is not desirable, but if it is present, it is necessary to use lamps that do not heat the air.
How to provide vibration protection
One of the main conditions for maintaining high-quality wine is the calm content of the bottles, since wine does not like all kinds of shaking.
The quality of the wine can suffer even with microvibration.
The wine cabinet must have an effective damping system - it is a reliable protection against vibration.
Wood is best able to dampen vibration, which is why shelves in wine cabinets are usually made of wood - they are able to ensure a calm position of the bottles during operation of the wine cabinet.
The wine cabinet compressor is always mounted with special shock absorbers and rubber gaskets.
Some manufacturers offer to use cabinets without a compressor - this completely eliminates vibration.
But the volume of such a cabinet is designed for 12 bottles.
Wine temperature - when serving
When serving non-harmonious extractive and aged red wines on the table - the recommended temperature is + 18 * + 19 * С.
Young, promising red wines are served at a temperature of + 16 * + 17 * C.
Light young red wines are served at a temperature of + 14 * + 15 * C.
Extractive white wines, fine champagne, sweet sweet dessert wine served at a temperature of + 12 * + 13 * C.
Inharmonious white and sparkling wines (champagne), served at a temperature of + 10 * + 11 * C.
Light white and sparkling wines at a temperature of + 8 * + 9 * C.
A variety of wine racks, design features
Wine racks are not a necessity, they are an element of luxury.
The variety of wine racks is amazing.
From small cabinets-refrigerators to huge cabinets with modern controls and unique designs.
The wine cabinet may be freestanding.
It can be embedded.
There are cases on the market of well-known European manufacturers of household appliances, but there are also companies engaged in the production of wine cabinets only.
