How to store wine bottles?

How to store wine bottles? What are the characteristics of a cellar? At what angle to place the wine in the bottle? Here are the questions you will find answered in this article.

First of all it is good to distinguish the different types of bottled wine storage. In fact, the wine is constantly evolving even after bottling.

1- keep an open bottle of wine it is not recommended, especially if constantly in contact with different light sources and with oxygen, which favors oxygenation. You can use tools that slow down the acetification process (it starts about 3 days after opening the bottle) by sucking in the air from the bottle.

2- for one storage for a couple of months a pantry or a place subject to different changes in temperature and light is not recommended. Even the wine in the fridge should never be stored for a long time, maximum a few weeks, if open and, in any case, tightly closed.

3- environments such as the refrigerator, the cellar, the garage are not suitable for the wine storage for more than one year

In this article we will talk about closed bottled wines, which must be stored for medium-long times. How long does the wine last in a closed bottle? It depends on the type of wine. Young wines, which must be consumed quickly, last - certainly - less than wines which must mature, from 10 to 40 years, before being excellent. In this second case, we talk about wine aging in the bottle and the conservation of wine bottles is particularly important.

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What are the consequences of incorrect storage of wine in a closed bottle?

The vitamin content varies, losing vitamin B5. Other consequences concern the flavor, color, aroma and all the sensory qualities of the wine, but also an incorrect maturation of those wines that need 10, 20, 30 years before being perfect for consumption.

To best preserve bottles of wine for medium-long periods it is good to equip yourself with wine refrigerators, also called wine cellars, which are available in countless variations and sizes. In fact, they have more or less sophisticated designs and technical performances that are sometimes very different between models.

How do you keep bottled wine in the cellar? Here's how to store wine in the wine cellar

A wine cellar or good wine refrigerators are ideal for ensuring a correct wine storage environment. There are different types of wine cellars: from the double temperature wine cellar to the built-in wine cellar. To understand how to choose the ideal wine cellar it is necessary to understand how it works and how to store wine.

There are 5 fundamental aspects to properly store a bottle of wine:

- Humidity: the storage environment must have a relative humidity between 65% and 75%.

- Temperature: the storage temperature of the wine must be medium-low (12-15 C °) and constant.

- Tilt of the bottle: the position of the wine bottle must be horizontal or, in any case, with an inclination of 5 degrees. Here is the correct inclination of wine bottles

- Light and darkness: the bottle of wine must be protected from UV rays and it is best to keep it in a dark environment

- Vibrations: the wine bottle must not be in an environment subject to vibrations.

- Odors: the bottle must be stored in an environment free from strong and persistent odors.