When should wine be placed flat and when should it be placed upright?

Common wine placement methods include flat, vertical, upside-down and oblique placement, and different placement methods have different characteristics. Yuncang Winery's brand LEESON red wine shared when to choose to store it flat, and when to choose to store it upright?

Laying flat is the most traditional and common storage method, especially for cork wine. Laying flat can allow the wine to soak the cork to keep it moisturized, prevent the cork from drying out, and allow oxygen to penetrate through the tiny pores on the cork very slowly. The holes go into the bottle and preserve the wine very well. Generally, the way of laying flat has higher requirements for display racks and containers, so most of the still wines are laid flat.

Standing upright is a widely used method in the transportation process. It will be squeezed during transportation. The stress point of the upright wine bottle is thick and not easy to break, but it is limited to a short time. If the cork wine is placed upright for a long time, it is easy Drying and shrinking the cork accelerates the entry of air into the wine, leading to premature oxidation.

Then, the brand LEESON red wine of Yuncang Winery shared that when we store wine at home, should we choose to store wine flat or straight? It depends on the cork. If it is wine with oak cork in the old world, it is best to choose to lay it flat. If it's a New World screwcap wine, it doesn't matter if it's upright or flat.

No matter how it is placed, it depends on the style of the wine itself. If it is a wine suitable for drinking when it is young, it is better to drink it as soon as possible. Yuncang Winery's brand LEESON red wine shared that if the wine has aging potential, it can be placed flat or upside down to ensure that the wet state of the cork matches the aging time.