10. SOME USEFUL INFORMATION
Examples of serving temperatures
To be followed when tasting, to avoid missing out on the rich aromas of your wines!
Opinions vary, and the ambient temperature too, but many people agree on the following:
Prestigious Bordeaux wines – Reds
Prestigious Burgundy wines – Reds
Prestigious dry white vintages
Light, young, fruity reds
Provence rosés, primeur wines
Dry whites and vin de pays reds
Vin de pays whites
Champagnes
Sweet wines
Maturity table in years
APPELLATION
Alsace
Alsace Grands Crus
Beaujolais (crus)
Beaujolais primeur
Bergerac
Bordeaux
Burgundy
Cahors
Cotes de Provence
Cote Rotie, Hermitage
Burgundy grand crus
Bordeaux grand crus
Jurancon mellow, liquoreux
Jurancon dry
Languedoc
Loire
Loire mellow, liquoreux
Mâcon
Montbazillac
Savoie
Rhone Valley
Yellow wine
How to manage your collection?
The wine cellar register (the original, a Climadiff innovation) will help you with this!
WHITE - ROSÉ
1 - 4
8 - 12
2 - 3
2 - 3
5
1 - 2
8
8 - 10
8 -10
6 -10
2 - 4
1 - 2
5 - 10
10 - 15
2 - 3
6 - 8
1 - 2
2
20
16 – 17°C
15 – 16°C
14 – 16°C
11 – 12°C
10 – 12°C
10 – 12°C
8 – 10°C
7 – 8°C
6°C
RED
1 - 4
1 - 2
3 - 4
3 - 4
7
5 - 10
2 - 5
8 - 15
10 -15
10 - 15
2 - 4
5 - 12
1 - 2
2 - 4
4 - 8
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