Home Wine Cellar Ideas
Does wine expire? A sommelier explains drinking windows and shelf life for unopened and opened bottles, with storage tips and an easy-drinking Italian wine to open now.
Just warm it in a pot: the basic recipe for mulled wine (vin brulé) and how not to fail. The spices to use, an affordable red for the base, and a South Tyrol Christmas-market story, for a warming glass at home.
You do not need a wine cellar to keep wine in good shape at home. Here is how to store wine well in a Japanese home, covering temperature, humidity, light, summer heat, and how to keep an opened bottle, from an Italian importer who pours wine across Tokyo.
Red wine is not only for room temperature. An Italian importer explains how to choose a red that tastes great chilled during Tokyo's late-summer heat, the right serving temperature, and how to pair it with Japanese food, alongside the Maremma custom.
The word "sommelier" traces back to the Old French "bête de somme" — keeper of...
A practical guide to wine serving temperatures by type: when to chill, when to warm, and why the same bottle tastes completely different at the wrong temperature. Includes the Japan-specific adjustments every home wine drinker needs.