Some basic Questions

[yclim]

Hi, I started to be interested in wine 1 month ago when my friend opened a bottle of red. It was fantastic, thus arousing my curiousity. I was surfing the net for more info on wine when I stubled upon this forum. This forum is great and extremely informative.

I have a few questions though:

(1) How should one keep wine at home(other than keeping it in a cellar or one of those special boxes) What is the ideal enviroment etc etc....(nb I stay in Singapore which experiences high humidity and avg temp 30c)

(2) How long should one consume the wine after buying off the rack. I have been looking around, some of the wines have labels saying that the wine could be kept for 3 mths after purchase, some 1 yr and others 2yrs. How can I know how long the wines can be kept.

(3) I realise alot of you recommend newbies to start out with Beaujolais. Is Beaujolais a short-lived wine? I have trouble finding it here in Singapore. Any other recommendations?

That's for now. SOrry for being so wordy