Sunday, January 9, 2011

Your refrigerator


You probably already have in your kitchen a device which will save you from all your worries about how to store an opened bottle of wine.

It is SO SIMPLE--just put the cork back partway in the bottle and stick the bottle in the fridge.

Do this for your reds and your whites. Do not fear. The cold temp prevents oxidation. The wine remains fresh.

When you're ready to drink the wine again, if it's white, just uncork, pour, and wait a bit for the wine to come up to proper white wine temp.

If it's a red, either let it warm to room temp the old-fashioned way (using time and the laws of thermodynamics), or pour a glass and nuke it for about :10-:12 seconds in the microwave. Then swirl, to make the temperature uniform throughout the glass.

Do not be afraid. This works. This does not harm the wine. Do not be afraid.

And you do not need a vacuum system (which doesn't work; the differential atmospheric pressure draws oxygen back into the bottle MUCH quicker than you might realize). And you do not need a sparging system (a cannister which fills the headspace with an inert gas). Hooray!

Isn't life great when it's made more simple?

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