| You've been keeping your wine where? For how | | | | 1. Keep the bottle on its side |
| long? If your wine could speak if would surely be | | | | The majority of fine wines (which are usually the |
| asking for counselling by this stage, or at the very | | | | wines with the capacity to age) are still closed |
| least a package holiday in a musty cellar | | | | traditionally with a cork. It's very important to |
| somewhere. | | | | keep the cork moist, so let the wine rest on its |
| Whole books, lectures and PHD's have been | | | | side. Resist the temptation to parade your |
| dedicated to this subject, but we'd like to give | | | | maturing wine in front of your friends in your |
| you the low down in under 500 words. | | | | living room. It's a delicate creature, and this fools |
| There are really just four Golden rules in wine | | | | around with the sediment nicely collecting along |
| storage. | | | | the wine's belly. |
| The Four Golden Rules | | | | |