Wine Storage

Red wine is an excellent type of wine for collecting as well as keeping on hand for both cooking and drinking, but it’s essential to know how to store it…

Most kinds of alcohol require different ways of being stored. Depending on if the alcohol is bubbly, flat, best served cold, or at room temperature, all of these factors are…

Knowing how to dispose of old unopened wine and bottles can be challenging. While you don’t want to drink it anymore because it doesn’t taste good, you don’t always want…

It has always struck me as unusual that standard wine bottles are all 750ml. Even for the metric system that number seems unusual. If we look at wine bottles in…

Glass bottles have been used to successfully store wine for centuries with minimal breakages. Yet, more recently I have had a few instances where the bottles of lower-priced wines had…

Chardonnay is a popular white wine known for its crisp, fruity flavors and versatility. Whether you have a bottle of Chardonnay that you've opened or an unopened one, proper storage…

I remember when I first attended a young wine show, and every winery had its young wines in carafes and decanters to open up their aromas. The thought crossed my…

When I first began exploring the world of wine, I was intrigued by the metal foil and plastic coverings over the corks of wine bottles. They didn’t seem to have…

Pick up your latest wine purchase and examine the bottle. Besides a long, elegant neck, a screw-capped or corked top, and an eye-catching label, what else do you spot? Hint:…

Wine collectors and traders commonly wrap their high-end bottles with plastic wraps, such as Saran Wrap, etc., to protect the labels from scrapes and scuff marks that could significantly reduce…