Should wine be served chilled, warm or over ice?
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A conventional rule of thumb is that red wine should be served at room temperature while white wine should be served chilled. However, we need to be more precise, since room temperature varies from city to city and season to season, and some refrigerators may be set too cold.
On average, for best results, wine must be served at the following temperatures:
* Sparking Wine: 48˚F (9˚ C)
* White Wine: 53˚F (12˚ C)
* Rose Wine: 51˚F (11˚ C)
* Red Wine: 62˚F (17˚ C)
Slight variations of less than +/-10% are acceptable.
In the last few years, portable wine cellars have become popular. These small refrigerators can be set up at the optimal wine temperature and can store a few or many bottles of wine. It is now possible to buy an entry level wine cellar for around $100.
If you don’t have a wine cellar and you use your refrigerator instead, there is a rule of thumb that will tell you how far in advance you must put the bottle in the refrigerator (or remove it if it’s already there) to achieve the best serving temperature:
A bottle of wine will cool 2 °C (4 °F) for every ten minutes in the refrigerator, and will warm at about this same rate when removed from the refrigerator and left at room temperature.
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M$http://www.wineintro.com/basics/temperature/index.html
Question now is how do you chill your wine to the proper serving temperature since you'll never know what the temp is when you put it in an ice bath, fridge, freezer etc... There are rapid wine/drink chillers that can chill your wine to the proper serving temperature in minutes, go to www.CooperCooler.com and www.VinPodium.com
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NEVER use ice to get it to that temperature. Ice melts, diluting the wine. Chill it in the refrigerator or freezer, or in a bucket of ice.
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M$Here's the easiest way to remember for serving wine, white or red.White wines comes out of the refrigerator 15 mintues before serving and reds go IN the refrigerator 15 minutes before serving. most people serve their reds way to warm. So just remeber the 15 minute rule and you should be good to go.
Rose's and Rosatos are meant to be served chilled more like a white.
Hope this helps
Cheers!
Dale Rossi
Finewineonline
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Red wine is best served on room temperature, white wine and Rosé are best served cold.
See http://www.mahalo.com/wine for more information on wine and http://www.mahalo.com/red-wine on how to properly decant wine.
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