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Try a glass of your favourite wine served at room temperature beside one that’s spent 30 minutes in the fridge. You’ll quickly sense how the same wine from the same bottle tastes different.

The wine shuts down. Let that come closer to the red wine temperature.” Conversely, they say, red wines should be served at a temperature closer to the temperature they’re stored in a wine cellar.

You can pop the bottles of red that were stored on the counter into the fridge for around 30 minutes before serving to reach a good temperature. You can also leave them outside on a patio, balcony ...

If you are lucky enough to own a cellar or wine fridge, you could take the bottle out 15 minutes before serving. There was a fashion for leaving cold red wines beside a roaring fire.

Pro tip: Put red wine in the fridge briefly before serving To achieve this, "it's OK to put red wine in the fridge for 10 or 15 minutes, just to get it a little bit cooler," Chandler says.

Welcome to Stop, a seasonal restaurant in Little Portugal offering fine dining without the fuss, a “special occasion” restaurant where it’s actually affordable to be a regular. Stop ...

The wine cellar boasts 200 labels of the best offerings, carefully selected by Connie and Gerry, who in 2005 were the first couple to graduate as sommeliers at the same time.