How long can a bottle of wine be stored?

The answer to the question depends on two factors:

• The conservation conditions.
• The type of wine: white, rosé, red, young…

Conservation conditions

The first point to take into account is the conditions in which we store the wine:

Once you have the wine at home, you must ensure that it is in a dark, cool and dry place. If these conditions are not available, it is possible that the wine does not maintain its conditions, so it would be best to consume it soon. In fact, the time a wine is on sale is considered the optimum time for consumption.

The position of the bottles will also depend on how long you want to keep the wine; if it is to consume immediately, you can store it vertically. If the idea is to reserve it for a special occasion, keep them horizontally, since the cork should be in continuous contact with the wine so that it does not dry out and does not cause defects in the wine due to air entering the bottle.

However, wine preservation is not an exact science and the only way to know if a wine has reached its optimum point of consumption is to open it, taste it and enjoy it.

Depending on the type of wine

Secondly, and without going into depth, since it is a complex subject, we can say that a young white or rosé wine, a young or vintage red wine are kept in good condition between 1 and 3 years after the year of harvest or vintage, reflected on the bottle label. On the other hand, when the white or red wine has been aged in wooden barrels, it can last up to 10 years or even more. These are the recommendations.

In fact, one of the points to highlight is that the longer the wine has been in the barrel, the longer its life cycle will be. This is because the composition has more structure and is more complex.