How to avoid problems with wine. |
 Some
problems can be seen before the wine is opened. By old wine, sometimes
flakes can be seen throughout the bottle, maybe the wine has been
shaken too much, but if after leaving the wine for a while to rest,
it doesn’t look any better,then chances are, it won’t
taste too good.
Before opening a bottle of wine wether red or white, it is worth noticing if the bottle isn’t as full as it should be. If the wine seems to have evaporated, this could mean that the cork has become porous and let air into the bottle. The wine will probabally not be drinkable. But there are problems one cannot see before opening the wine. These make themselves known by the smell of the opened wine. The most common problem is the cork, when the cork is not leakproof and has let air in, then the wine smells stale and corky. When a bottle has a bad cork it doesn’t necessarily mean that all the bottles in that batch have the same problem. There is a scale to determine the quality and age of a wine according to how full the bottle is: High fill Into neck Top shoulder Upper shoulder Mid shoulder. Lower mid shoulder Send us your recipes
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