Climadiff GAMME POLYVALENTE - Manual (Page 32)

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13. SOME USEFUL INFORMATION
Examples of serving temperatures: (to be followed when tasting, to avoid missing out on the rich
aromas of your wines!)
Opinions vary, and the ambient temperature too, but many people agree on the following:
Prestigious Bordeaux wines – Reds
16 – 17°C
Prestigious Burgundy wines – Reds 15 – 16°C
Prestigious dry white vintages 14 – 16°C
Light, young, fruity reds 11 – 12°C
Provence rosés, primeur wines 10 – 12°C
Dry whites and vin de pays reds 10 – 12°C
Vin de pays whites 8 – 10°C
Champagnes 7 – 8°C
Sweet wines 6°C
Maturity table in years:
APPELLATION White - Rosé Red
Alsace 1 - 4
Alsace Grands Crus 8 - 12
Beaujolais (crus) 1 - 4
Beaujolais primeur 1 - 2
Bergerac 2 - 3 3 - 4
Bordeaux 2 - 3 3 - 4
Burgundy 5 7
Cahors 5 - 10
Cotes de Provence 1 - 2 2 - 5
Cote Rotie, Hermitage 8 8 - 15
Burgundy grand crus 8 - 10 10 -15
Bordeaux grand crus 8 -10 10 - 15
Jurancon mellow, liquoreux 6 -10
Jurancon dry 2 - 4
Languedoc 1 - 2 2 - 4
Loire 5 - 10 5 - 12
Loire mellow, liquoreux 10 - 15
Mâcon 2 - 3 1 - 2
Montbazillac 6 - 8
Savoie 1 - 2 2 - 4
Rhone Valley 2 4 - 8
Yellow wine 20
How to manage your collection:
The wine cellar register (the original, a Climadiff innovation) will help you with this.
THE WINE CELLAR REGISTER or prestigious "grand cru" wine table (depending on model and excluding those
with glass doors). The inside of the wine cellar‟s door is specifically designed so that you can write on the wine
cellar register in chalk information about the characteristics of your collection or make a list of your prestigious
"grand crus".
Use only chalk to write on the wine cellar register.
To limit the handling of your wines, position those crus likely to spend a long time in the cellar at the bottom.
To erase information, use a slightly moistened cloth or sponge. Never use detergent or abrasive materials.