As red wine lovers will know, it’s standard practice to keep a bottle in a cupboard or leave it out to get it to the perfect temperature before drinking it
However, wine connoisseur Jancis Robinson, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, dropped a big old truth bomb at the weekend which upends everything you might have known until now.
Apparently, red wine should be stored in the fridge.
Robinson was speaking at the Hay Festival at the weekend, and when chatting about the ideal temperatures to store wine, she said it’s okay to store an open bottle of red in the fridge.
She said: “Put any open bottle in the fridge. Even red wine. Low temperatures slow down chemical reactions including oxidation, which is the enemy of an open bottle.”
If this to be believed, putting your open bottle of wine of red in the fridge means it will last longer, without going bad.
She said the age-old theory of strong wine near heat means it gets too warm, and she also said that people often don’t realise that some white wines – for example, a “mature white burgundy” – should be served at room temperature, instead of chilled.
