Serving Temperature

The temperature that you choose to serve your wine at will vastly affect the experience of consuming it. At some time, we have all tasted a wine that was clearly too warm or too cold, and hopefully we can all concurred that a white wine that has been out in the sun for two hours, will not taste its best. Down below is a simple chart over which are the best serving temperatures for some standard groups of wine. Some of them will surprise you. For instance, red wine especially light red wines, should not be served at normal room temperature (+20ᵒC)

If a wine is served too cold it tends to become more acidic, and higher in bitterness and astringency, while the flavours seem to disappear.

A wine that is served too warm will lack acidity, and the flavours will seem somewhat overcooked, as in a jam.

Temperature Chart