Which Wine to Store

To compose its cellar is before a a whole business of taste. However, some tracks can help you in your choice.

The traditional cellar

Reasonable and eclectic, this cellar with wine will have to correspond to your fine wines for 2 or 3 years.

Red wines:

24 bottles of Bordeaux
24 bottles of Burgundy
12 bottles of Cote du Rhone
6 wine bottles of the Loire Valley
3 wine bottles of South-west
3 wine bottles of Languedoc-Roussillon
3 bottles of Beaujolais wine

White wines:

12 bottles of Burgundy
6 wine bottles of Alsace
6 sweet wine bottles
6 bottles of Cote du Rhone
3 dry wine bottles of Bordeaux
3 wine bottles of the Loire Valley
3 wine bottles of the Jura
3 marrowy wine bottles of South-west

Rose wines:

3 bottles of Cote du Rhone
3 bottles of Cote de Provence

Bottles to have

That you have or not a cellar, it is always useful to envisage some bottles.

2 bottles of Claret
2 vigorous red wine bottles (Coast of the Rhone or Madiran)
2 light red wine bottles (Anjou)
2 bottles of white Burgundy
2 light dry white wine bottles

In summer, you will be able to supplement this list with some rose wines and light red wines (Gamay of the Loire Valley)

The "small-cellar" to begin

If you wish to familiarize yourselves with the great wines, start with you to constitute a cellar of a score of bottles. But avoid buying more than 2 bottles of a wine which you did not taste.

2 light dry white wine bottles
2 vigorous dry white wine bottles
2 consistent dry white wine bottles
1 marrowy white wine bottle
1 sweet white wine bottle
2 light red wine bottles
2 slightly tannic red wine bottles
1 tannic red wine bottles suave
3 powerful tannic red wine bottles
1 bottle of rose light (wine of the Loire Valley)
1 bottle of rose vigorous

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