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KEEPING WINE AT ITS BEST STORING AND SERVING TEMPERATURES Domestic Refrigerator Temperature Ideal Long-Term Storage / Aging Temperature Room Temperature SWEET WHITES DRY WHITES LIGHT REDS FULL SCALE REDS 39˚F (4˚C)41˚F (5˚C) 43˚F (6˚C) 45˚F (7˚C) 46˚F (8˚C) 48˚F (9˚C) 50˚F (10˚C) 52˚F (11˚C) 54˚F (12˚C) 55˚F (13˚C) 57˚F (14˚C) 59˚F (15˚C) 61˚F (16˚C) 63˚F (17˚C) 64˚F (18˚C) Muscadet Chablis Sauternes Macon Chinon Best White Red Burgundy Gewurtztraminer Bordeaux Blanc Burgundies / Graves Sancerre / Pouilly Beaujolais Nouveau Beaujolais Crus Top Red Rhone Gros Plant Alsace / Riesling Cotes du Rhone (Red) Vintage Port Muscats Sylvaner Midi Reds Aligote Fino Sherry Tawny Port (Corbieres, etc.) Tokay Non-Vintage Champagne Amontillado Ordinary Red Bordeaux Montlla Cream Sherry Cahors Sparkling Wine (Sekt, Cava, etc.) Vin Jaune Madeira Madiran Eiswein Best Champagne Fine Red Bordeaux Liebraumilch Good German / Best Dry Best Sweet Bandol Sweet Loire Chenin Blancs Austrian Wines German Wines German Wines Frascati Orvieto Soave Valpolicella Chianti Reservas Verdicchio Fiasco Chianti Rioja Reservas Vinho Verde Hungarian Whites Sicilian Reds Best Portuguese Reds Fendant Bull’s Blood Lambrusco Valdepenas Barbera Barolo Dole Chilean Cabernet Retsina Yugoslav Riesling Light Zinfandels S.A. Chenin Blanc California / Australian / Oregon Pinot Noir Chardonnay Top California / Australian Best California Light Muscats Chardonnays Cabernets / Zinfandels N.Z. Sauvignon Blanc California Sauvignon Blanc Old Hunter Valley Merlots / Pinot Noirs Johannisberg Riesling Liqueur Muscats Whites Barossa Riesling Top Australian Vin Rose Cabernet / Shiraz 39˚F (4˚C)41˚F (5˚C) 43˚F (6˚C) 45˚F (7˚C) 46˚F (8˚C) 48˚F (9˚C) 50˚F (10˚C) 52˚F (11˚C) 54˚F (12˚C) 55˚F (13˚C) 57˚F (14˚C) 59˚F (15˚C) 61˚F (16˚C) 63˚F (17˚C) 64˚F (18˚C) © Octopus Publishing Group Ltd., reproduced from Hugh Johnson’s ‘The World Atlas of Wine’, published by Mitchell Beazley, London. 19.

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