Listen, if you prefer your white wine near-freezing and your red at room temperature, then that’s how you should drink it. There’s no shame in bending the rules to suit your taste, but a few small adjustments to your wine-buying, storage and serving routine could open those bottles up.
Winemakers, sommeliers and other professionals spend their lives considering the best wines and the best ways to serve them. One I spoke to thinks the average imbiber is probably serving their wine at suboptimal temperatures if the goal is to release the full expression of a red, white or rosé.
To gather basic wine tips and bad habits to curb, I chatted up Jerry Chandler, a wine consultant and the general manager of The Bohemian Wine Bar in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Chandler called out five common mistakes that even experienced wine drinkers make — from serving at the wrong temperature
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