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Store wine around 55-60 F or in the back of a closet or somewhere safe from heat sources, sunlight or lots of temperature fluctuations.  Stability is key to protect the wine while it bottle ages.  A few bottles out on a display rack in the dining room for use that month is fine but anyone who's got 50+ bottles out on view is more serious about showing off and posing than protecting their investment if you ask me.  Protect your wine!

While a wine ages, whites tend to darken in color and reds tend to lighten, but that's really a generalization.  Especially in this high-tech forward thinking international wine environment where I am convinced subtle and sometimes not so subtle trickery is at play.  Hundreds of wine producers maybe can't get away with so much but today's thousands most certainly can and do.  Some little tricks are illegal in some regions and practiced in others and visa versa... it's a pretty confusing world out there in wine land.  As if learning enough old world knowledge to make a respectable choice off a menu isn't enough, now we've got the new world techniques and tricks to learn about as well.  No wonder noobs are intimidated.