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Storing & Maturing How to Properly Store Sparkling Wine and Champagne

Standing up or lying down, fridge or cellar, how long sparkling wine keeps and when Champagne reaches its peak. With disgorgement dates, closures, and a shipwreck find from the Baltic Sea.

  1. Chapter 1Storing Sparkling Wine: Standing Up or Lying Down?Lying Down or Standing Up
  2. Chapter 2How Long Does Sparkling Wine Keep? Unopened and by StyleShelf Life Unopened
  3. Chapter 3Can Champagne Age – and for How Long?Maturity by Style
  4. Chapter 4Disgorgement Date and Production Date: How Old Is My Sparkling Wine?Reading the Age
  5. Chapter 5Late disgorged, R.D., Plénitude: maturity on the leesExtended lees aging
  6. Chapter 6Can sparkling wine be stored in the fridge?Cold storage
  7. Chapter 7Cork, wire cage, crown cap: closures and their influenceWhat seals the bottle
  8. Chapter 8Found an old bottle of sparkling wine: drink it or not?A find in the cellar

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