Dictionary of Wine Tasting
- + Ageing Premature
- + Aromas Unpleasent
- + Breathing wines
- + Brett
- + Bottle Shock
- + Buying Cellared Wines
- + Capsules
- + Clarity Brilliance
- + Colour Hue
- + Cork Borers
- + Corked Wines
- + Corked Wines Return Of
- + Decanting
- + Half Bottles
- + Lead Residues
- + Leakers
- + Loss Of Or Unsual Flavours
- + Oxidation
- + Sediment Deposits
- + Seeping Corks
- + Temperature Of Serving
+ Travel Shock
- + Ullage
- + Wine Crystals
TRAVEL SHOCK
Vibration during transport can make wine appear atypical - hard or angular and lacking fruit. It can take up to two months to recover - less if stored at low temperatures. Transporting wine at low temperatures (5-10 deg°C) reduces the problem. Exposure of the bottle to vibration during storage (eg. under the stairs) can have a similar effect.
