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Serving Wine




Wine Temperature
- 14 -16° C: red Bordeaux and Burgundy wines
- 10 -12° C : young light red wines, dry fine white wines
- 8 -10° C: medium-dry and medium-sweet white wines
- 6 - 8° C: sweet white wines and Champagne

A wine drunk at room temperature is served at a temperature of 15 to 16° C, which was normal room temperature in our grandparents' time.

Champagne is never drunk ice-cold, but should be chilled to 6-8° C for twenty minutes in a bucket filled with water and ice (to open a bottle of Champagne, remove the cap, loosen the wire cap, place the bottle at an angle of 45° and pull the cork while rotating the bottle slightly downwards).

 

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