Good Wines, what NOT to do

This is a couple of tips a have collected from my own experience and what I have heard from others, and I just want to share them with you.

First of, do not store wine standing up. Why you ask? well if you don't keep your bottles on their sides, the corks will dry out and let damaging air into the wine.

In addition to the corks getting dry issue, Never store wine in a dry place because this may also make the bottles cork dry out and let air into the wine bottle.

Also don't store the wine in a fridge, because its too cold, with the awful low temperature a lot of aromas will be lost. And a fridge has a compressor motor that shakes, and will give repeating shakings to the wine, and is not a good thing.

If you cant open a bottle because you have destroyed the cork, do not try to hit the cork down into the bottle, this will give some fun but messy results (instead you should use a quality bottle opener).