Wine Cellar In Houston TX: 6 Wine Basics You Need To Know

Drinking and collecting wine is fun. Everyone with taste buds and awine cellar in Houston TX knows that.  But there’s more to enjoying wine than just, well, enjoying it.  There’s a lot of information floating around on the internet (and in bookstores – let’s not forget those) about wine.  You don’t really have to know everything; but there are some randoms bits of basic information that you should keep in mind like:

1. The right wine glasses make a difference.

In 1986, Georg Riedel, an Austrian glass maker created a line of wine glasses that created a commotion in the wine community because he created different glasses for different wines.  Up until then, everyone had been drinking wine out of one type of glass and no one could believe that a drinking vessel could make a difference.  So, to prove to the skeptics that the glasses mattered, Georg hosted wine tastings – more specifically wine glass tastings – at which wine lovers found that wines in the right glasses indeed tasted better.

2. Wine tastes best when served slightly cool.

Like most every other non-hot beverage we drink, wine tastes better slightly cool.  If you own a wine cellar in Houston TX, then your wines will already be the right temperature to drink.  If you don’t, then remember to keep your reds between 53℉ and 69℉, your whites between 44℉ and 57℉ and sparkling wine between 38℉ and 45℉.

3. Almost every red wine tastes better decanted.

Pouring red wine from the bottle to a glass decanter improves the taste of the wine.  In addition, it helps to eliminate the rotten egg odor you can sometimes get with less expensive red wines.  The smell is a minor fault in the wine and it isn’t bad for you but drinking it with a rotten egg smell isn’t optimal.

4. A standard wine serving is about 5 ounces.

Of course you’re not going to be charging your guests by the glass so you may not think it matters how much you pour.  But by pouring the standard serving, you’re leaving enough space in the glass to swirl the wine for aeration plus you don’t want to look gauche or be wasteful by pouring wine to the top of the glass.

5. It’s best to hold the wine glass by the stem.

It may not feel right to try to hold onto a goblet of wine with the delicate stem, but if you grab the bottom of the bowl, your hand will heat up the wine.

6. Learn how to properly uncork a wine bottle.

While it’s not exactly an art, keeping a couple of things in mind while grabbing for your corkscrew will keep you from having to drink wine filled with cork debris.  Always start the tip of the corkscrew off-center so that the wider body of the corkscrew is centered as it goes into the cork.  After that, make sure you turn the corkscrew about 7 times without poking it all the way through.  That way you can be sure you’ll pull the cork out cleanly and in one piece.

If you enjoy wine and you want to start a collection of your own, you’ll need a great wine cellar in Houston TX.  At Vineyard Wine Cellars, we can design and install the wine cellar of your dreams.  Call us at (866) 615-4008 or visit us online at www.vineyardwinecellars.com to learn more about our process and to see a gallery of our completed wine cellars.

Wine Cellar in Houston TX
Vineyard Wine Cellars
15020 Beltway Dr.
Addison, Texas 75001
866-973-1100 972-712-9600