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KEEPING WINE at ITS BEST Muscadet Sancerre

KEEPING WINE at ITS BEST Muscadet Sancerre

KEEPING 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) Chablis Sauternes Macon Chinon Best White Red Gewurtztraminer Blanc Burgundies / / Pouilly Beaujolais Crus Top Red Rhone Gros Plant Alsace / Cotes du Rhone (Red) Port Muscats Sylvaner Midi Reds Aligote Fino Tawny Port (Corbieres, etc.) Tokay Non-Vintage Amontillado Ordinary Red Bordeaux Montlla Cream Sherry Cahors (Sekt, , etc.) Vin Jaune Madeira Madiran Eiswein Best Champagne Fine Red Bordeaux Liebraumilch Good German / Best Dry Best Sweet Bandol Sweet Chenin Blancs Austrian German Wines German Wines Frascati Orvieto Soave Chianti Reservas Verdicchio Fiasco Chianti Reservas Vinho Verde Hungarian Whites Sicilian Reds Best Portuguese Reds Fendant Bull’s Blood Lambrusco Valdepenas Barolo Dole Chilean Cabernet Retsina Yugoslav Riesling Light S.A. California / Australian / Oregon Top California / Australian Best California Light Muscats Chardonnays Cabernets / Zinfandels N.Z. California Sauvignon Blanc Old Hunter Valley / 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.

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