Just a few interesting notes on wine storage… While temperatures and wine cellars will be a post for another day, there are a few quick tips for maintaining freshness in wine.

 Wine should be stored on their sides if there is an actual cork top in the wine bottle. This prevents the cork from drying out and allowing that nasty horrible stuff called air or oxygen into the wine. If the wine has a synthetic cork or a screw top it can be stored standing up.

(Horrors, people, check the floor, someone might have fainted after reading that I even mentioned a screw top wine in this “quality” blog)

 

Storing open wine: Once you open wine and it is exposed to oxygen it will begin to lose its taste. If you don’t finish the bottle at once it can be stored for a few days in the refrigerator. This works for both red and white wines. Remember to let red wines come to room temperature before consuming them. If it has been more than a few days consider making a wine vinegar with the remaining unused wine.

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