For people who often drink red wine, do they often wake up red wine before drinking? How long is the best time for red wine to wake up? If it's too long, it's easy to ferment into vinegar, so be careful.
'sober up', as the name implies, is to wake up the wine and make it show the best state. Generally speaking, when sobering up, we usually need to use a sobering device, which is also known as "bottle changing". There are two main purposes of sobering up: first, let the wine fully contact with the air and react with it. In this process, the floral and fruity aroma of wine will be gradually released, and some more subtle and complex flavors will be developed. In addition, the tannins in the wine can also reduce the bitterness through oxidation, which makes the wine taste more mellow and soft. 2、 Sobering up can remove the sediment from wine. Although most wines have undergone initial filtration before bottling, after a period of bottle aging, there are often some precipitates, especially those wines that have been bottle aged for a long time. The decanting and bottle changing can remove these precipitates and make the liquor clearer.
After having a simple understanding of the principle and purpose of sobering up, do you begin to understand why Lu Yuandian's Italian wine can't be drunk after waking up for more than two hours? This is because the sobering up time is too long, which causes excessive oxidation of wine and produces acetic acid taste.
If you don't sober up properly, you can destroy a good wine! Then, how to control the sobering up degree and how long is the best time? Xiaobian makes a small summary here for you.
1. The younger the wine, the higher the tannin content, and the longer the sobering up time. Generally speaking, the sobering up time of young red wine is about one hour, and some wines with high tannin content, such as Syrah, Brunello di montacino and Chianti, can be appropriately extended on this basis.
2. For some aged wine, sobering up is only to remove impurities in the wine, so usually just a few minutes of sobering up time is enough. The old wine with elegant fragrance and easy dissipation doesn't even need to sober up. It can be opened for drinking only after standing upright for a few days before drinking.
3. the wine is light, fruity, white wine and pink wine, and hardly needs sobering up. Because of the soft flavor of these wines, the intervention of oxygen will make the taste less light when sobering up.
Of course, the specific time of sobering up still needs to be determined according to the characteristics and personal hobbies of each wine. What Xiaobian put forward here is only the general applicable law. If you want to experience the best flavor of a wine through sobering up, you need to experiment and practice more.