SUB-ZERO WINE BLOG

Heat causes wine to prematurely age. You wouldn’t skip your kid from second grade to fourth grade and then from the eighth to the ninth grade because by the time that he got to be a senior in high school he’d be 14 years old and not emotionally ready for high school. The same holds true for wine.

You’ll see the latticework wine racks that people keep in their kitchens. Well, in the afternoon the sun comes in the kitchen window and the room warms up a little bit. Then at night the temperature goes down 5 to 7 degrees. So the wine is expanding in the bottle during the day and contracting at night so it’s ostensibly doing pushups in the bottle – up, down, up down. Now multiply that by 2 or 3 years. The French have a term for wine that has been aged in this way: fatiguee. It means fatigued. Or you can use my word, which is beat. The wine is stressed out -- making a 6 year old wine taste more like a 10 year old wine.