Would you like to discover how our underwater wines should be stored?
As a wine lover—or someone who enjoys new and different experiences—you may have one of our underwater wines in your collection and have wondered how to preserve it without losing any of its authenticity.
You may have wondered whether you should follow the same storage guidelines as for a wine aged exclusively on land to preserve all its flavour, aroma and colour, or whether the life of an underwater wine truly changes completely once it leaves the sea. To answer all your questions, we explain it in this post:
- Location: You should look for the ideal place to store your wines. Ideally, they should be kept in a wine refrigerator, at a constant temperature and in very low light. If you do not have such a place at home, the best option is to store them in a climate-controlled cabinet or, failing that, in a dark cabinet in a cool corner of the house, such as a basement or a lower floor. That said, bear in mind that the kitchen is usually one of the worst places to store wine because of its vibrations, noise and changes in heat, making it the least suitable location.
- Temperature: The temperature should be as constant as possible. We recommend keeping white wines at 12ºC and red wines at 15ºC.
- Humidity: As with temperature, it is equally important to monitor the relative humidity of the surroundings, since relatively low humidity can cause the cork to dry out and deteriorate, allowing air to enter the bottle. We recommend maintaining relative humidity between 65% and 75%.
- Light: Wines should preferably be stored in a dark place so as not to accelerate their deterioration through direct exposure to light. This applies to both natural and artificial light.
- Bottle position: Bottles should be stored horizontally. This keeps the wine and cork in constant contact. Once stored, it is best not to move the bottle; we should avoidshaking it or subjecting it to sudden movements, allowing the wine to rest and evolve as naturally as possible.
- The life of our wines: At present, the analyses carried out by Antonio T. Palaciosindicate that, under these conditions, red wines can last for up to 10 years without difficulty, while white wines can last between 5 and 7 years. Beyond that period, it will depend on each wine and on how the bottle has been stored. Our recommendation is that the wines are excellent for drinking today, but if you wish, you can keep them for 5 or even 10 years, and the wine will improve naturally.
- And once the wine has been opened?: Once we have opened a bottle of wine, if we are not going to finish it at once, we can store white wine in the refrigerator. First, we should minimise contact between the wine and the air in the bottle to prevent oxidation; we can do this with a vacuum pump. In the case of red wine, we should store the bottle in a cool place, without the cork, for no more than a couple of days. But you may be surprised to find that our wines, once the cork has been removed and they are kept open in a cool place, can improve even further—even two days after opening them … see for yourself.
In general terms, storing one of our underwater wines is not very different from storing a wine aged on land, which makes it easy to enjoy. Once you have followed these steps, you can enjoy the experience of tasting a wine Crusoe Treasure and discover for yourself the unique characteristics imparted by our underwater ageing process.