How to build your online wine cellar? #1
The basic rules for building an online wine cellar
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In this section (which will be divided into several articles), we invite you to react by posting your comments. We will address the following aspects security, budget, storage, climate-controlled cabinets, wine cellar book, storage equipment, storage conditions, and above all how to select your wines, the aging potential of a great wine, etc.
First, it is necessary to briefly distinguish between two main families of winesWines for immediate consumption, which you will store for a maximum of one or two years, and the wines for agingwhich, in turn, come from specific terroirs and are vinified to be preserved.
Among the wines for immediate consumption are the early produce of course, the majority of Champagnes, THE rosé winesthe majority of white wines and the red wines of the table and of the country.
THE wine labels never reveal potential for guarding of a wine. This information will be given to you by a wine merchant, A sommelier, or the winegrower, as soon as you buy the wine at domaineSome sites of online sale inform you about the guard, when they publish information about wines. Specialized books and magazines generally provide information on the wine storage.
« THE Guide for Serious Wine Lovers "by Alain Marty, the only guide in the world produced by the consumersThis study was conducted by 300 knowledgeable consumers who tasted 1192 different wines. For each wine, theyear of custody is indicated. This corresponds to what our sommelier identifies as the " Best Before ", in his wines à la carte of Cavissima, or the end of thepeak of a wine.