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2torial #0691:
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Hold a Wine Tasting (Continued)
 Add a wine to your list of
favorites
As if an evening of tasting good wine weren't
rewarding enough, you have also performed valuable
research into your own wine preferences. The next
time you buy a bottle or order in a restaurant,
youÜll be prepared to make a well-informed
choice.
- Sometimes, you'll find a wine that you like
very much. Buy as much as you dare! Go so far as
to try to buy bottles from the same case, or
cases that arrived at the store at the same
time. Wine can change from case to case,
especially if it's been mishandled, and there's
a good chance that a popular wine will sell out
quickly.
- There are several products on the market to
preserve wine once the bottle has been opened.
The two most effective seem to be the cans of
inert gases that settle over the surface of the
wine in the bottle, and the vacuum pumps that
expel most of the air from a bottle and seal it
with a rubber stop. Both of them work on the
principle that wine changes character as it is
exposed to air, and minimizing exposure will
slow that process.
On storage: Certain wines improve with age.
Others do not. The amount of tannin in the wine is
one indicator of whether or not it will age well.
Tannic qualities often become less apparent with
age, and a bottle that you would like to keep for
some years should have enough of them to start
with, otherwise it won't develop much more
character, and will "die" rather quickly.
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