Serving Wine

You might find a few accessories useful if you're planning on being very accurate about serving your wine.

Plain uncut glasses allow you to see the wine easily, light glasses are considered better. Store them the right way up in a cupboard or hung upside down from a rack. Serve champagne in tall flutes which keep the sparkle in better than wide rim glasses.

Good quality corkscrews can make your life easier. The classic designs such as the waiters friend, simple wooden handed models are still popular although there are more fancy pieces of equipment designed to open wine.

Foil cutters make life easier and save the occaisional broken nail.

Hot and cold sleeves can help your wine reach the right temperature quickly but ice buckets and wine coolers are also handy. A thermometer will tell you what temperature the wine is at.

For decanting you'll need a funnel and decanter (Or carafe)
Decanting is often done to ensure sediment is retained in the bottle and so isn't drunk.

Opening sparkling wines ios best done slowly and carefully to minimise spillage. Twist the bottle whilst holding the cork. Have a glass handy to catch any that does froth over.

Wine wine should be served cool so that it is refreshing.. Red wine is served warm enough for its aroma and character to develope.
However some people have enjoyed red wine served chilled too!

Serving temperatures

White wines		°C
	sparkling and desert wine Riesling	4-8
	Champagne Expensive sparkling wines Dessert wines Rosé	8-11
	Alsace Chardonnay, Sauvignon Sémillion	12-13
Red wines
	Lighter reds beaujolais, Valpolicella	10-13
	Burgandy Rhone Chianti Rioja	14-16
	Older red wines, Shiraz barola, young claret	16-18