http://www.winedeals.com.au/2008/02/21/are-you-storing-your-wine-properly/ The best deals when buying wine online in Australia Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:38:46 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.winedeals.com.au/2008/02/21/are-you-storing-your-wine-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Peter Hewson Sun, 11 May 2008 06:14:17 +0000 http://www.winedeals.com.au/?p=5#comment-16 I've regularly seen the above advice since I started taking an interest in wine in the 70's. What I'm wondering is: is there any evidence that those recommendations are correct? 'Modern' wines are vastly superior in terms of mechanical (closures) and bacterial (preservatives) spoliage prevention than even those wines of the 80's; yet the same recommendations that Len Evans would have (rightly) espoused for the 1973 barossa cabernet still seem to apply, and those recommendations seem to stem back from much earlier days. I wonder where the research is up to in this area; both with respect to storage (to prevent spoilage) and for cellaring, to allow for maturity. I’ve regularly seen the above advice since I started taking an interest in wine in the 70’s. What I’m wondering is: is there any evidence that those recommendations are correct? ‘Modern’ wines are vastly superior in terms of mechanical (closures) and bacterial (preservatives) spoliage prevention than even those wines of the 80’s; yet the same recommendations that Len Evans would have (rightly) espoused for the 1973 barossa cabernet still seem to apply, and those recommendations seem to stem back from much earlier days. I wonder where the research is up to in this area; both with respect to storage (to prevent spoilage) and for cellaring, to allow for maturity.

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