Wines storage conditions and drinking temps.

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Red wine, 65 degrees (F).
White & rose wine, 55 degrees (F).
Champagne & other bubbly, 45 degrees (F).

To get to those temperatures reds can normally just be kept in the cellar. This is
also called "cellar temperature." Whites and rose's can be put in the fridge for a few
hours, and the bubblies longer. It is far better to use an ice bucket. Fill the bucket
up with ice about 4/5ths, cover the ice with water. If the "room" temperature of your
reds are over 65 degrees, immerse them for five minutes; whites and rose's for ten
minutes; and bubblies for fifteen to twenty minutes. Light reds such as Bardolino,
Valpolicella, Nouveau and Plain Ole Beaujolais, and others of that weight should soak nearly as long as the whites.