85% home distilled Polish Spirit

[FrankCrank]

...sort of related, as wine's been mentioned. I store wine in the spare bedroom, sometimes a few dozen bottles, and these might take a year or so to get through. The word on the street is that wine should be stored in a cool place, hence wine cellars. To date, I've not had a bad bottle from my stock, all stored at room temperature, which is way above say north European temperatures. Given this, I'm more inclined to think that a constant temperature, ie one that doesn't fluctuate a whole lot, is of more importance for keeping wine, but would like to know what others think........

 

[srw]

The general advice is that storing on the side in constant temperatures are recommended, and cellar temperatures for preference. But these days most of us don't have cellars. I don't know how much of the advice is to do with not buggering the cork and how much the wine - but with plastic corks or screwcap wines the potential cork damage is less of an issues.

If you're only storing relatively ordinary wine for a year or so, you're unlikely to do much damage - but if I was drinking something very expensive or with some age in it I'd want to be sure that it had been stored well.