Important Wine Concepts - Transtherm Caves STUDIO Elegance Serie Modo De Empleo

7- Important wine concepts

Your TRANSTHERM cabinet has been designed to guarantee the optimum
conditions for storing and/or serving your wine.
Wine is a highly complex product, requiring long and gentle development and
needs specific conditions in which to reach its full potential.
All wine is stored at the same temperature, only the temperatures for serving
and wine tasting can vary depending on the type of wine (see the table below).
This being the case and just like the natural cellars used by wine producers, it is
not the exact temperature that is important, but its constancy. In other words,
as long as the temperature of your cabinet is between 10 and 14° C, your wine
will be stored in perfect conditions if the temperature is not subject to any
significant fluctuation.
However, it is advisable to be especially careful concerning the values shown on
your wine cabinet's hygrometer, which, due to its location in the wine cellar will
always have tendency to display a pessimistic hygrometry level.
IRRESPECTIVE OF THE CAUSE, IF YOU NOTICE EITHER ABNORMAL
TEMPERATURE OR HYGROMETRY LEVELS INSIDE YOUR CABINET, BE
REASSURED THAT ONLY LONG EXPOSURE TO THESE ABNORMAL
CONDITIONS CAN HAVE A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON YOUR WINES.
Hygrometry
You cabinet is equipped with an exclusive TRANSTHERM system enabling the
creation, inside your wine cabinet, of the correct hygrometry level required to
perfectly seal the corks in your bottles.
Serving temperatures of wines
Bordeaux reds
Burgundy reds
Italian reds
Spanish reds
Potuguese reds
Chilean reds
Australian reds
Washington and Oregon reds
Californian reds
Rhone reds
Roussillon reds
(given as an indicator only)
16 à 18°C Languedoc wines
15 à 16°C Burgundy whites
14 à 16°C South African reds
14 à 16°C German whites
14 à 16°C Bulgarian reds
13 à 14°C New Zealand whites
13 à 14°C Austrian whites
13 à 14°C Swiss reds
12 à 14°C Hungarian whites
12 à 15°C Sweet Bordeaux whites
11 à 13°C Natural sweet wines
Champagne
11 à 13°C
11 à 13°C
11 à 12°C
10 à 11°C
10 à 12°C
10 à 12°C
8 à 10°C
8 à 10°C
7 à 9°C
6 à 8°C
6 à 8°C
6 à 8°C