Saving and storing your wine

Jeroen van Mierlo teaches wine courses, in which he explains people the basics about wine. He answers the most asked questions about wine: ”How should I properly store my wine”.

How to store your wine?

Storing wine properly is of great importance. If you store your wine in a wrong way, it will go bad and of course we want to avoid big disappointments when opening a bottle. Wine is influenced by light, temperature, and oxygen. Therefore there are certain ‘rules’ to storing your wines. Check out all tips to store your wine!

• Reseal your wine with a bottle stopper or even better a vacuum seal.
• Store the wine in a dark place.
• Unopened wines are best stored lying down
• Opened wine bottles are best kept standing
• Keep the temperature constant of about 12 degrees Celsius.
• Avoid big temperature changes.
• Let the wines rest, don’t move them about too often.

How long can you keep an opened bottle of wine?

In general you can keep an open bottle of wine about 1 or 2 days after opening. This is when you seal the bottle properly after pouring. We recommend to store the wine at a low temperature, so if you don’t have a basement or special wine climate cabinet, the fridge is your best option. This also goes for red wines. When a wine is stored in a warm space the quality and taste will decrease even faster.

Once opened, make sure you store your wines standing up. It’s the oxygen that influences the taste of the wine. When a bottle is laying down, the surface becomes bigger and therefore oxidation goes faster.

To slow down oxidation it is advised to remove as much air from the bottle as possible. This is very easily done with the Vacu Vin Wine Saver. The Wine Saver creates a vacuum seal, which makes your wine last for about 7 to 14 days!