How to drink wine: for Dummies guide

Step 1. cool

Each wine has its own ideal temperature at which it is as it should be revealed. And the wine is necessary to bring it. Not necessarily to stand over him with a thermometer: just not analyzing, White throws in the fridge for a couple of hours, red - for 30-40 minutes.

No fridge on hand - then into a bucket, bowl or sink with ice water. In winter, the wine can be removed on the balcony, if there is not -30, and in any case will have to be checked every 10 minutes, as in the case of wine.

Pedants and those who do not want to go and feel if the bottle is cold enough, we recommend to buy a special thermometer - you will know exactly what kind of wine temperature. And here is a cheat sheet for the extensive, degrees, of course, is above zero.

Step 2. Open

Open the wine - it is the best, all present (geranium and cat) looking at you. No room for error, smile, cranking everything easily and gracefully.

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A knife sommelier - he is 2 in 1, and corkscrew and knife in the picture he is third from left. And there the proletarian spin - spiral, sometimes with arms for extracting corks.

If anything, afraid sommelier knife is not necessary, his master even the most timid and unskilled citizens, and ease of use of this just rolls over. In short, we suggest.

Sommelier knives are commercially available, often in large supermarkets. We are here once purchased a knife in the "ABC of Taste", on the way to visit, where there was no equipment.

How to open wine

Happy times: of course, enjoy a bottle zainstagramit. Just do not shake and turn upside down looking for the best angle, especially the sparkling and red age. Sparkling then will open too violently, and respectable red wine stir up sediment.

Do two: remove the foil from the cork - and then come in handy at a special knife knife sommelier. If you spin the proletarian, cut the foil with a knife or an ordinary short stout nail scissors. Some manufacturers are careful to fasten the foil a special tail, which you can pull for that then everything is easy to remove.

Do three: gently introduce spiral knife sommelier corkscrew or three turns. Observe the vertical position to a spiral not zakos not crumble the cork.

Do four: time X - remove the plug. If you have a sommelier knife, first in the neck of the bottle rest against the upper lever, then, when the cork will come out halfway, - lower. Now gently pull the plug - not much will have to make an effort. If the proletarian spin - well there somehow all by itself happens, pull until you come out.

Do five: wipe the neck (the bottle, not his) cloth and proudly look around the audience. And let the discovery process only saw a cat-nihilists, still you are a hero.

How to open sparkling

Happy times: the main thing - do not make sudden movements, do not shake the bottle. Safely get and put on the table.

Do two: pull the tail (in sparkling it almost always is), remove the foil. Loosen the wires (called myuzle), hold the cork with your thumb.

Do three: take a bottle of the working hand (remember - right in right-handers, left-handers from left), inclined at an angle of 45 degrees. Neck send toward - not himself in the chin and on the people side by side, not the will of the victim.

Do four: firmly hold the plug broken hand, working gently turn the bottle in one direction and then in another direction. The cork will come out very slowly.

Do five: I felt that the plug is about to break out, to concentrate and not allow it to fly to the ceiling. Or give.

Step 3. Razdyshat

If white wine, rose or sparkling - it must be easy to open and drink, skip to step 3. There is an exception - cask white is more expensive, they need to be open for 10 minutes before drinking. To razdyshalis, fan tail.

If you have a red - it definitely will need time to breathe. Oxygenate the wine loosens up and gives all its secrets. Especially need prodyshatsya young-spirited red (years 2-3) to slow down the sharpness and vigor, and mature (from 7-8 years) - went to mustiness and manifested all age elegance.

"Razdyshat" wine in two ways

Just open advance

Wine of the supermarket cost, rubles for 700, open for 5 minutes before drinking, "middle class", something district two thousand rubles - for 20-30 minutes, and something old (from 7 years) and expensive (2 000) - for an hour or two.

aerate

Simply put, pour the wine into a pitcher, to increase the area of ​​contact with air, and along with the emancipation of the wine's velocity. For even greater speed can poperelivat wine from a jug into a jug, but gently, without hysterics. Pitcher descend any, a large jar of cucumbers can also be used. It is not necessary to pour the entire bottle and a portion where a maximum of one-third. Razdyshat one party, to drink, then set free following. The time spent in a jar - 10-20 minutes, and if the wine is well, very much "ilitnoe" - is longer.

Digression

There is a word decanting. This is almost the same as aeration, only with an additional pribabahom. Wine is poured into a bowl of special shape, it is also a decanter, where it is aerated. The main thing - then, when the wine is poured into a glass: decanters in its bends delays wine sediment, which is so in the glass would climb if he gave vent to.

this precipitate has not all the wines - he appears at fault for 7-10 year life. Naturally, we are not to drink on a regular basis. So often practice decantation and to get this strange vase on the farm is not required. It will gather dust without cause, or mother-in-law will confiscate it under bouquets.

Step 4. Pour: how and where

Under red and white wine glass requires a standard volume of 300-450 ml. Pour not the top, as a tea, and fill about one-third. The wine should be at the level of the widest part of the glass. Then, the area of ​​contact of wine with air is maximum, and it can properly breathe more and in the glass, and lends itself well in this connection greater charms.

For narrow glass sparkling needed volume of 150-200 ml. Fill to ¾ of, in general, to pour until the foam does not climb out brazenly.

Step 5. Drink

Of course, sometimes you can take all the previous rules and neglected. Open wine keys to the garage, a warm drink from a cardboard cup. The main thing - remember one wisdom and followed her: "Drink wine as you would like it drank you."

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