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Article: Ice red wines on hot days
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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WINE
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SPECIAL TO RAVE!
\STLrave \STLadi Over the course of a recent week in Sicily,
with temperatures soaring well above 100 degrees and lingering long
after the fall of darkness, I came to truly appreciate the tableside
ice bucket _ for my red wines.
Yep, there goes another useless wine myth. Serving red wines at
room temperature works just fine if you happen to live in a dank
castle in the English countryside. At least, that's where I believe
this old wives' tale was born.
But if the room is boiling and the air conditioning is strained
beyond its capacity to cope, room temperature will result in listless
red wines with sharp edges; the sort of wine that drives reasonable
folk to drink ...