Misconceptions about Wine You Should Stop Believing

janiya abanu
2 min readJul 25, 2018

When it comes to party dance, music and food is a must. But, what about drinks? Are they too?

Nowadays when people look to a party, they order whiskey, beer, scotch, and Vodka but apparently, they don’t go for wine. They rely on some or other misconceptions to not choose wine.

Today’s let talk about some of those misconceptions that you shouldn’t rely upon:

Wine Gets better with age

People have believed it for centuries, but it is not justified. 90% of the wine produced is meant to be consumed within a year. So, if you are preserving your wine for future remembers you won’t be benefitted anyhow, it will have health effect and so does the taste will be.

Expensive Wine is better

Not everything you buy at the high price is best. If you are buying expensive wine and you think it will be good for you are wrong. The wine maybe expensive because of several reasons like the labor costs was too high, the price of grapes was fluctuating in their city, or the transportation costs was the primary reason.

All sparkling wine is Champagne

No matter it is Indian sparkling wine or the other all sparkling wine are not champagne. Champagne is a sparkling wine which is of very high quality matchless to many wines available in the market. So, confusing both of them is not good. However, many sparkling wines on par are said to be French bubbly.

It’s good to let the wine breath

Remember uncorking the bottle of wine and making sure it sits for a period is not an effective way to freshen the wine. The neck of the bottle doesn’t make any effect on it. So, if the wine needs to be in the air, it should be done in open glass. The only best way to air the wine is to aerate the wine by transferring it to a decanter.

Wine is for old people or Women

Many people will tell you that wines are made for only old people or women because they are more prone to infections by other hard drinks. But the truth wine is good for irrespective of age and gender and infections can happen to young males too. So, youngsters should switch to wine than going for cheap hard drinks like beer or whiskey.

In a nutshell, stop avoiding wine because of different misconceptions instead make wine a part of your everyday life, and experience the humblest parties and meals.

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