Wine Buffs Get Digital Thermometer October 17, 2007

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For the wine buff in your life, then look no further than this little gadget for the Christmas stocking.

For many, white wine is cold enough for guzzling once there’s condense on the outside of the bottle or, God forbid, when there are ice cubes handy. As for red, it’s a less precise affair that equates to: ‘Well, it’s not cold so it must be ready to drink’. Hell, it works for me.

Still, get one of these and you stand a chance of not feeling ant-sized in the company of snooty wine connoisseurs. The Digital Wine Thermometer, snazzily disguised as a little wine bottle itself, has 16-preset optimum wine temperatures for the most popular wines. The stainless steel probe slips through the cork and will tell you the temperature of your chosen plonk, sounding an alarm when it is within 2 degrees of the optimum temperature.

Yours here for a very reasonable £15. Jump now to see the optimal wine temperatures for the 16 most popular kinds of wine.-Martin Lynch

Optimal Wine Temperatures:
1. BEAU - Beaujolais - 12°C/54°F
2. BORD - Bordeaux - 18°C/64°F
3. BURG - Burgundy - 16°C/61°F
4. CABER - Cabernet - 17°C/63°F
5. CHAMP - Champagne - 7°C/45°F
6. CHARD - Chardonnay - 9°C/48°F
7. CHNTI - Chianti - 15°C/59°F
8. ICE - Ice Wine - 6°C/43°F
9. MERLO - Merlot - 17°C/63°F
10. PINOT - Pinot - 16°C/61°F
11. PORT - Port - 19°C/66°F
12. REISL - Reisling - 8°C/46°F
13. ROSE - Rose - 12°C/54°F
14. SHIRA - Shiraz - 18°C/64°F
15. SPARK - Sparkling - 7°C/45°F
16. ZINFD - Zinfandel - 15°C/59°F

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