AS TO CONSERVE THE WINE

According to the type of elaboration and quality of the wine, will be optimum to keep it or not. Today, many wines devise for to be consumed youths and fresh, therefore these they are not advisable to keep a lot of time. Yes they are it, the calls, wines of guard. Before keeping the wine, the cork should be examined, that be in good conditions and not present spots of humidity or mushrooms.


The bottles are placed in horizontal position, remaining all the cork in contact with the wine. The ideal average temperature to maintain it they are around the 15ºC. Our small bodeguita should have little light and in her not other substances contaminants can be placed or with smell as nafta, varnishes, paintings or kerosene. The place should not suffer greater vibrations, neither a dryness extreme environment.


Store the wine in an alien dark place to the light, a sotano or hole of stair can be ideal.


The place should be dry and aired but free of currents, vibrations and strong smells.


It should be maintained to a constant temperature between 12 and 15 degrees centigrade and to avoid the changes of abrupt temperature, to have them in the kitchen is a very bad idea.


The wines should be stored always in horizontal position so that the cork be maintained humid and swollen, ésto is fundamental for a perfect closing and avoids the entrance of oxygen and the oxidation.




Before drinking the wine one must rest it, a pair during the day as a minimum or preferably more time so that the impurities go in the background, to keep in mind when we have an important food in sight


Storenot never in the refrigerator and much less the foamy since lose their flavor.


The generous wines as the Oporto and Jerez should be stored in vertical position.


The label leave the view to avoid to move it.


The young wines as the white one or the pink one should be consumed in the season, they do not serve to store them long seasons and they will oxidize.




For mature wine, is preferably to store it in large bottles, of 1 liter for up, the more better.

•Constant temperature to 12º C, thus the bouquet without alterations is exalted oxidativas and microbiológicas.

• TO smaller better temperature; but the development of the bouquet is slower.

• Over 15º C the aging is premature and the life of the wine shortens itself.

• Humidity among 70% - 80%, to avoid the dryness of the cork. • Total Darkness with weak lighting upon extracting the bottles for the consumption. The intense light affects the sensory composition of the wine.

• It Leave to raise and to live to the spiders, they are fed of the moth that would be able to destroy the corks. • Free of strange smells that can affect the quality of the wines (mufa -land - solvent - rancidness - filth)

• Only improve the large red wines of a lot of body, servants in casks of oak tree, facts with grape Ink of the Country - Cabernet-Sauvignon - Merlot - Malbec - Garnacha. Because of it some wine-producers call them "wines of guard" or "breeding "

• The fruit-bearing and young wines (Pink and Young red wines), they do not possess sufficient body for to be kept. Better to drink them during the first year of elaboration.

Temperatura -

The wine does not tolerate abrupt changes of temperature. -

The cooling off should be slow and progressive. - Never it was placed in the freezer neither him will be added ice. -

The correct thing is to place it in the refrigerator hours before being served or in an ice-tray with ice. 18º C. -

Red wines, breeding, reserves and great reserves. 16º C. young red wines. 14º C. wines amontillados and odorous. 10º C. pink, white wines, chamomile, fine, needle, foamy and you dig. Counsels -

Is convenient that the bottles rest horizontally.

- To assure a correct conservation, the bottles should be in fresh and dark place.

- Once open the bottle, the digs should be consumed as soon as possible, the wine can be conserved with the bottle covered to avoid that lose its qualities