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Oxidation Aeration opens a wine, but too much will result in oxidation and therefore spoilage. Similarly, if the wine has a cork that leeks in too much air, or if a wine goes through multiple temperature changes in the bottle over a long period, oxidation may also occur. I find oxidation to be one of the the most common wine flaws you’ll encounter, and is the main reason that I generally don’t drink wine by…
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Sometimes (but admittedly not that often for most), you run into the issue that you have an open bottle of wine that you just can’t seem to finish. Sure, you can flip on the TV, fill your glass and go to town on a bottle or two, but your boss may not appreciate you showing up late the next morning with a raging hangover! What exactly is the problem? Why can’t you just stick the…
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Sometimes (but admittedly not that often for me), you run into the issue that you have an open bottle of wine which you just can’t seem to finish-off. There seems to be an ever increasing amount of gadgets on the market which claim to preserve your opened bottle of wine, much longer than if you were to simply put the cork back in. I’ve always found that in the extraordinary case of having an unfinished…
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