Knowing your wine- And how to build a collection
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Article originally printed in ICON magazine- October 2006
In Part 1, 2 and 3 we explored different styles of red, white and summer wines. Now that you have probably found a few favourites you’ll want to have some in stock for entertaining and impromptu dinner parties or gatherings with family & friends.
It may seem a simple process buying wine, but keeping wine is a different matter. We can easily forget that wine is a living product, that is either enhanced when aged and stored correctly or ruined when stored in bad conditions.
Throughout future issues we will be discovering many fine wines, and I would like to ensure that you do not purchase these wines, then waste your money due to storing your wine in poor conditions, hence ruining it.
I see it as my responsibility to ensure that you get good advice in every aspect of enjoying fine wine.