You can chill white wine in the refrigerator for about two hours or in the freezer for 20 minutes. To make sure your white is perfectly ready for your enjoyment, we love this wine thermometer that doubles as a gorgeous bottle opener. Traditionally delivered and served from an ice bucket, sparkling wines are often served colder than their non-bubbly siblings. The ideal temperature for sparkling wines is between 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
To get it there, toss a room temperature bottle in your refrigerator for about two and a half hours or in the freezer for about 25 minutes. Then set the bottle on the table for just a couple minutes before opening. In most cases, your wine glasses are going to be warmer than you want to serve your wine.
A dramatic temperature difference can quickly change the temperature - and therefore the experience - of your wine. Use glasses with stems so the person enjoying the wine can hold the glass without his or her hand warming the cup. While reds can be served in stemless glasses, using a stemmed glass will keep your red from becoming too warm. Chill them in the fridge for 2 to 5 minutes - just enough to maintain that perfect red temperature. Have you noticed different flavors come through at different temperatures?
Tell us about your experience in the comments below! Thank you for this. I know nothing about wine, which I need to serve tomorrow night. The Freezer. Loaded bottles into the icemaker as friends grew ambitious with their consumption, only to forget them and find an icy explosion the next morning. While quality may not diminish at such extreme temperatures, the risk of a mess rises. When the water in wine freezes, it expands and can push the cork out in part or full, or even crack the bottle.
This allows the egress of oxygen, which starts the clock on oxidation. If you use the freezer, set a timer for 30 minutes. Slip the bottle into an icy salt bath. The table version will do. Grab a bucket or container, and add salt, water and ice.
Ice absorbs heat from the water, which brings the temperature down. Other Chilling Methods. For singles, a sleeve kept in the freezer will chill a ml bottle. At home, pour a glass of wine and put it in the fridge. It takes less time to chill than an entire bottle, due to its smaller mass. Of course, you can also keep enough in the freezer for multiple glasses.
If not, ask your server to put it in an ice bucket for 10 to 15 minutes. It is very common for restaurants to serve their red wine at a temperature that is too warm; it occurs frequently. This usually occurs when the wine is stored near a hot restaurant kitchen. What if you have over-chilled your red wine? Don't worry - roll the glass around and warm it in your hands, all the while smelling its bouquet and sensing how it opens.
All these are important tricks to enjoying wine. Because it's easy to warm wines, and they will warm on their own once poured, it's always better to have a wine that is slightly too cold than too warm.
Because temperature plays such an important role in the taste and aroma of the wine, pay close attention to how you store and serve it. Invest in a wine refrigerator that can keep your wines at an ideal temperature, or create a space in your cellar for storing the wine at a cooler temperature than the rest of your home.
Decant your wine when it's at the proper temperature and enjoy all the notes and complexity of flavor that improper temperature might otherwise mask. Wine Wine Basics Wine Serving Temperature Chart and Tips There is an adage about wine serving temperatures that white wines should be served chilled and red wines should always be served at room temperature. Ideal Wine Temperatures Note these are serving temperatures , not storage temperatures. Why Temperature Matters There is always a learning curve, but when you figure out each wine's personal characteristics, you will quickly learn how to enhance its flavors.
Serving a wine too cold will mask its core flavors and bouquet, as well as its imperfections. Serve a wine too warm and it will make it seem dull, flabby, and hot with alcohol. White Wine Most people serve white wine straight from their refrigerator, which is set at a great temperature for lettuce, but not for most wines. Chilling the Wine While some people prefer specific serving temps, 45 to 55 degrees F is a good basic temperature for most white wines.
Warming a White The easiest way to warm a white is to take it out of the fridge. Red Wine Worse than drinking a wine too cold is drinking wine too warm. Creating the Right Temperature The problem with serving a red wine above 65 degrees is that as the wine gets warmer, all the wine's imperfections are more apparent. Serving the Wine Because temperature plays such an important role in the taste and aroma of the wine, pay close attention to how you store and serve it.
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