Wine 101: Wine Storage

 With Malaysia’s weather not being the best for wine it's important to store your wines properly in order to get the best out of them. A wine storage cabinet is a great solution to keep bottles for a long period at perfect conditions, without risk of spoilage. However, you may not have the space or need for one. But there’s a way to get around this, as long as you do not intend to keep your precious bottles for a few years.

The best way will be to store your bottles in a room without windows (the sun is a wine’s nemesis!) and without large changes in temperature.

A kitchen cupboard is not the best place, because of the heat from the cooktop or oven. This is why we offer a minimum order of only 3 or 6 bottles at a time so the quality of the wines are preserved by avoiding cramped storage space with too many bottles at once.

That said, if you have a good wine cabinet, you will be sure that your wines are stored at perfect conditions and environment. A simple fridge is not good for long time storage as the humidity is too low. It may dry-out the cork and risk to damage your precious wines. There’s nothing more disappointing than waiting for years for a bottle to arrive at maturity, and finding it out it is corked when you open it!

If you have a bottle opened and want to save some for tomorrow, the best thing to do is to place the cork back and store it in the fridge – even for the reds. If you keep the bottles outside, it will spoil sooner. Some bottles will be good for a few days to a week (it may even get better!). While others may start to fade out after a couple of days. Only way to find out which ones is to try!