Wine Serving Temperature
Wine should not be served too warm or too cold.
At high temperature even very good wine can smell of ethyl alcohol, and vice versa, at low temperature a lot of flavors` nuances will stay undisclosed.
It’s not of necessity to have a thermometer at home. How can you understand if serving temperature is right: taste it, if wine seems to you rough, probably the temperature is too high. If at first you feel neither taste no aroma, then you have overdone with a cooling. In that case it will be quite enough for some minutes keep wineglass in hands for warming.
The best of all would be cool wine in buckets with an ice. Take a bucket with some water, add there salt, and then ice. It is not advisable to cool wine in freezing chamber.
Approximate wine serving temperature:
- old red wines – between 17 °С and 20 °С.
- light red wines – between 12 °С and 17 °С
- sweet red wines – between 12 °С and 14 °С
- Beaujolais nouveau (red light wine that is released for sale on the third Thursday of November) – from 12 °С to 14 °С
- white dry, fortified wine – from 8 °С to 10 °С
- white immature wines, rose - from 6 °С to 8 °С
- champagne, sparkling wine - from 4 °С to 6 °С
- Millesime Champagne (wine with a year of harvest) – from 8 °С to 10 °С
- Absolutely dry wines and simple sparkling wines - from 4 °С to 6 °С
Tags: aroma, Beaujolais nouveau, champagne, dry wine, fortified wine, Millesime, red wine, white wine
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