{"id":194,"date":"2008-05-21T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/freezing-wine-it-really-works\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T06:00:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T13:00:49","slug":"freezing-wine-it-really-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/freezing-wine-it-really-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing Wine: It really works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/freezing-wine-this-ive-gotta-see\/\">freezing wine<\/a>: that it can preserve an open bottle and even improve it. It was something I had to see to believe, and I did. I froze a half-full bottle of red wine for over a month, thawed it out, shook it up (that&#8217;s one of the steps!), and tasted it. Since I didn&#8217;t have the original unfrozen wine to do a side by side comparison with, I can&#8217;t say for sure if it improved. I&#8217;m certain that it did no harm, and the Lady of the House thinks it <em>did<\/em> improve.<\/p>\n<p>So if, for whatever reason, you&#8217;ve got some wine that you can&#8217;t finish for a while, put the cork back in and freeze it. It will survive in fine shape and, who knows, might even improve.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<h2>Update 1\/16\/2010 &#8211; Luc Volders tried this too<\/h2>\n<p>He also <a href=\"http:\/\/wijnmaker.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/freeze-it.html\">reports<\/a> an improvement after freezing wine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, I wrote about freezing wine: that it can preserve an open bottle and even improve it. It was something I had to see to believe, and I did. I froze a half-full bottle of red wine for over a month, thawed it out, shook it up (that&#8217;s one of the steps!), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage-and-aging","category-tasting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}