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Can cold wine go warm?

Hello,

I have a quick question. I'm by no means a wine connoisseur, but my girlfriend and I had a number of bottles of wine, both red and white in our cupboard and some we purchased, that we placed in the fridge for a party we had. Not all bottles were consumed, and now we have about 5 bottles in the fridge taking up alot of space. We have a wine rack, and I wanted to move them to the rack, but if it will spoil them, I guess we can leave them in there until we drink them.

So, will moving red/white wines from a cold fridge to the wine rack on our counter spoil the wines even so much that an average wine drinker like myself would notice a big difference?

Thanks!

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Andrew
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Anders Tørneskog

Yes :)

No, really - they will be fine. The colour of the wine is immaterial. If you move the wines to and from the fridge every day for the next few years it might well affect them. But once or twice, no problem.

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Steve Slatcher
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Joe "Beppe"Rosenberg

In Phoenix all one has to do is set their wine in a rack in an open room for a few months and run the risk of losing some. Even though the A/C is running at 70F or so the daily temperature swings in any given part of the house can be excessive and damage the wine. Lost too many bottles before I installed a wine cooler for my collection.

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miles

Whats more important than the actual temperature is stability. If your kitchen is 67-68 day or night every day then no problem for 6 months. If that part of the house experiences 10+ degree swings from night to day that could be a problem.

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miles
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Joe "Beppe"Rosenberg
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Lawrence Leichtman

I'm not even sure that freezing wine would damage it, but I don't intend to find out. But, er, yes... keep below boiling point is certainly sound advice ;)

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Steve Slatcher
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Paul E. Lehmann
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Jim Lamplighter

Temperature stability is often more important than the actual temperature itself. Moderately large temperature swings in an open room kills wine.

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miles

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