Wine Chillers
Whether you prefer to drink a red or a white, there are specific methods to preparing the wine prior to drinking. With different wines come varying methods of storage. With a red, you will be required to attend to the storage and decanting of the wine. A white wine will require chilling.
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Wine chillers otherwise known as wine coolers can be enjoyed at home as well as in a restaurant. Whether you enjoy a glass of champagne, cava, a sparkling wine, rose or a white wine, your drink will taste much more refreshing following the chilling process.
A wine chiller usually sits on the table-top and used for chilling single bottles of wine. Some wine chillers otherwise known as refrigerators, are large and contain multiple bottles of wine at the correct serving temperature.
But what happens to red wine while white wines and get all this preferential treatment? Enter the decanter.
Whilst white wines are chilled, the red wine is decanted. By pouring a red wine from the bottle into the decanter, the sediment is removed, the wine becomes aerated and becomes easier to pour. It cannot be ignored either that the wine always looks so much better when poured from a decanter.
If you are lucky enough to enjoy an old red wine, the decanter is a must have. There tends to be an accumulation of potassium bitartrate caused by the aging process that is found in older wine vintages. Decanting your wine will remove the sediment so that you can go on to enjoy your lovely old wine.
Some argue the decanter is ideal for increasing the air to wine interface. Thanks to the larger surface at the bottom of the decanter a considerable bottom will allow for greater oxygen introduction which therefore leads to a better wine taste and bouquet.
Before the red wine reaches the table, it is preferably stored in the wine rack. When stored correctly, the wine rack will achieve optimum wine aging credentials. Red wines must be stored upon its side with a very slight downwards slope towards the neck of the bottle. When this has been achieved correctly, the wine will constantly be in contact with the cork and so the cork should not dry out. Should the cork dry out oxygen would enter the bottle and the wine would be spoilt.
Whether you enjoy a glass of white, a glass of red or both at the same time, make sure you get your wine chiller or decanter to the ready and tend your bottles with care.
