Why shouldn't you drink wine with ice?

Usually each bottle of wine will have a certain use temperature recommended by the manufacturer. But there are many users still have the habit of enjoying wine with ice. So does using with ice lose the taste of alcohol?

Wine bottles always have the best aroma and flavor when enjoying the right temperature.It is often wrong to add ice to wine to reduce the temperature, as the thawing will reduce the taste of the wine and make the wine less palatable, especially with white wines.

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Adding ice to a wine diminishes the taste of the wine and makes it less palatable.

Some Sommelier (Sommelier) said that the act of adding ice cubes to wine is one of the most inhibiting actions for wine connoisseurs.

Ways to quickly cool wine before enjoying:

  1. Some experts recommend putting some grapes in the freezer of the fridge, then putting them in a glass of wine to make the wine cool down quickly and taste better.
  2. Put your wine in the freezer before 20 minutes to enjoy you will have a bottle of wine with the ideal temperature to enjoy.
  3. Wet towels and buckets are always a great choice when you don't have a refrigerator to cool down the wine.
  4. In recent years eternal stone is also an alternative to ice water when using wine, but shaking a metal stone in a glass of wine will reduce the feeling of enjoying wine. You should consider this.

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