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Best wine serving temperatures.

Best wine serving temperatures.

It’s important to understand the best temperature to serve your wine for hosting guests, indulging yourself, or making the most of your collection.

Serving wines at certain temperatures will affect the wine’s notes and overall consumptive experience. However, it’s easier than you might think.

We’ve pulled together our guide to understanding the best wine serving temperatures to ensure you’re well-equipped to have the ultimate wine tasting experience.

02/09/2022

The best serving temperature for sparkling wine.

Sparkling wine should be served ice cold between 40 and 50 degrees.

Keep your bubbles on the finer side by freezing your sparkling wine around 30 to 60 minutes before you pop it.

After opening, sit the sparkling wine on ice to ensure it stays cold while you and your guests finish the bottle.

Don’t leave the sparkling wine in your freezer for too long otherwise you might have an explosive mess to clean up.

The best serving temperature for white wine and rosé.

Serving your white wine and rose cold, between 50 and 60 degrees, will deliver the best wine serving experience for you and your family/friends.

Place your bottle/s straight in the refrigerator when you arrive home, and don’t take it out unless serving.

This will ensure your wine keeps for longer and is matches the taste you may have tried out at the store or vineyard.

Once opened, and expected to be consumed, let your wine sit on a table for the temperature to rise and aromas to change.

The best serving temperature for red wine.

Just like white wine, consider leaving your red wine out on the table after cooling in the fridge for an hour.

Or perhaps, let your red wine increase to room temperature via a decanter and let the aromas do their thing.

There tends to be a misconception around the best wine serving temperature for red wine being warm, when in reality it’s better to cool it first, trust us.

Wine cellar cooling systems.

Not only do you need to consider your wine serving temperatures, you’ll need to also recognize how best your wine collection can undertake longevity when you’re ageing it.

In order to preserve your wine for a long time, a cooling system that is temperature controlled would be required.

Luckily, Heritage Vine specializes in preventative maintenance. Protecting your collection is important to us, that’s why our wine cellar repair and maintain services could save you a disaster.

Reach out to us so we can properly maintain your cooling system and set you up for a lifetime of quality wine.