It can be difficult choosing the right red wine for a romantic date and with endless bottles of red wine online, the task can become daunting. Red Wine Gestures is going to try and walk you through the basics of storing, drinking and buying red wine with confidence.

Red wine offers are abundant online and in the shops and sometimes the tendency is to buy the cheap red wine sat on the two pound fifty self waving at you. This could be romantic suicide and you may find this vinegary fine red wine better splashed on your chips. On the other hand if you eyeball a Merlot red wine or a Shiraz red wine at fifty percent off with a price tag of eight pounds, the chances are you’ll be buying a red wine that will be very palatable. We suggest, unless you are a total red wine geek, avoid purchasing hard to find red wines or rare red wine as you could be splashing out a day’s salary on mail order red wine that you frankly don’t like. If you are going to buy red wine online it’s probably a good idea to stick with what you know.

The phrase ‘New World Wines’ basically means wine houses that grow the same variety of grapes to produce their wine as the country and region of origin. France is the original home for many of the well known red wine grapes however, these French red wine varieties can now be found in the new world for red wines. These include Australian red wine, Italian red wine and New Zealand red wine. The home of Cabernet Sauvignon red wine grape is Bordeaux but now you will find in grown all over the world. Bordeaux is also where the grape used in the production of Merlot originally resided but now it is also at home in Italy and California. Syrah/Shiraz red wine grape started life in the Rhone Valley but travelled to Australia to contribute in their wine processing. The wine grape important to champagne, Pinot Noir, was first nurtured in Burgundy but now New Zealand, Australia and California all play host to this juicy little fruit. As we all know, you can order red wine online these days so getting hold of any of the above won’t be a problem. Also, South African red wine, Spanish red wine and German red wine produce a stunning array of cheeky little reds to tantalize your taste buds so it’s worth considering these when ordering your red wine delivery

There are many experts in red wine sales who bleat on about which red wine matches what food, it can all get a little confusing to the amateur who just wants to sip a tasty little red over a romantic meal. To make it easier, when you buy red wine to accompany food, use the age old rule of red wine for red meat, white wine for fish and white meat. The one big ‘no no’ when selecting wine to have with food is don’t drink dry wine with your chocolate laden sticky sweet, if you do, this will change the taste of the wine completely. Either purchase a separate bottle of dessert red wine or leave your glass to one side until you have finished.

How many people believe red wine should be served at room temperature? Apart from the experts, we would all say ‘yes’. This was the case when we weren’t so pampered with central heating systems cranked up to twenty-two degrees however, the idea temperature of a red wine is between fourteen and eighteen degrees C. Pop the bottle in the refrigerator for half an hour before opening to achieve an ideal temperature unless you still live your life by candle light.

What do you do if you have red wine left in the bottle and want to keep it for another day? Ok, so this is highly unlikely for most of us but if you are the one glass sipper, decanting the wine will preserve it for longer, but how many of us have decanters? There are wine vacuum devices on the market that when inserted into the neck of the bottle, the air can be extracted with a pump action. By far the easiest and cheapest way to preserve your red wine for longer is to keep it in the fridge; this will reduce the chemical reactions greatly.