How to store your Champagne?
Your Champagnes could be stored a few years before being opened. It
is recommended if you have the right storing conditions (see below), to
keep your vintages a few months, or a few years before drinking them.
The best storage conditions in a cellar are as follows:
- A fresh temperature (12 Celsius degrees)
- A quite important humidity rate
It is obviously very difficult to get all these conditions met at the same
to store ones Champagne. It is then recommended to store them in a room
where temperature variations are not too important (not more than 10 Celcius
degrees: e.g. 8 in Winter and 18 in Summer). Try to protect your bottles
from the daylight. Cover them with a material that leaves them to breathe.
Avoid rooms where smells are very strong (kitchen, cigarettes..). Finally,
ALWAYS leave your bottles lying down. If you don't do so, the cork will
dry and the gas will evade making the Champagne a non sparkling wine.
After having properly stored your bottles for days, months or even years,
you can enjoy serving
them.
All these advice are eligible for other wines than Champagne may they
be red or white or non-sparkling |
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