3. Taste the Wine.
Tasting your wine, if you dare to, is one way to check whether it has gone bad. If, before you taste the wine, you happen to detect astringent, vinegar-like, or chemical-like aromas, it is wise to refrain from sipping;the wine has most likely gone bad. Spoiled wine tastes flat and lifeless, and lacks familiar fruit flavors. If you find a wine boring, it has most likely gone bad already. Moreover, if you taste a wine and detect any sort of fizzy element, and the wine is not the sparkling variety,the wine may have gone through a secondary fermentation. Some winemakers purposefully allow wines to go through a second fermentation process, but if occurs accidentally, the wine will most likely have gone bad.
There are times when a wine that tastes different than it should has(e.g. too tannic) gone bad.
How to Protect Your Wines from Going Bad
Wines do not come cheap, but people purchase them and start a collection anyway,because they are a good investment. The value of wines increase overtime, as long as they are kept safe, and provided the ideal conditions for aging. Because they are an investment, you must do whatever you can to protect them from spoilage. There are two basic things essential to protecting wines, and these are:
1. Investing in a Quality Wine Storage Solution
The quality of wines cannot be maintained without the use of an effective wine storage solution. If you wish to start a wine collection, you must be willing to invest in a wine storage space for your wines to rest in. The most ideal place to store wine is a residential custom wine cellar in Vancouver, Canada.
Blue Grouse Wine Cellars is one of the leading wine cellar design and construction companies in Vancouver, Canada. They are known for producing not only beautiful, but also durable and functional wine cellars, both for residential and commercial purposes. They offer free wine design consultations and free 3D drawings of their client’s dream custom wine cellar design. Their wine cellar design and construction experts are willing to work alongside their clients from the planning and design phase of a wine cellar construction project until its completion.
2. Investing in an Efficient Wine Cellar Cooling Unit
A residential custom wine cellar, no matter how beautifully designed and well-built,must have a wine cellar cooling unit installed;otherwise it will be unable to provide the conditions that wines require in order to develop their flavors and aromas. You must have a wine cellar refrigeration system installed in your wine storage space, to ensure that your wine collection is kept safe.
Wine storage solutions vary in wine storage requirements. This means that each home wine cellar requires a different wine cellar cooling system. You cannot just purchase just any wine cellar cooling unit. You must choose one will meet your wine cellar’s specific storage requirements. It is recommended to have a wine cellar cooling unit expert determine the most appropriate cooling system for your particular wine storage space.
Blue Grouse Wine Cellars has teamed up with the best wine cellar refrigeration unit manufacturers in the industry. They make sure that all the wine storage solutions they build are effective in providing the ideal wine storage conditions for wines to age and develop.