When summer heat invites a lightly chilled red, his stylish 2002 Beaujolais-Villages answers the call.
But at Ruschmeyer's, a seasonal hotel and restaurant in Montauk, N.Y., chilled red wine has its own section of the list.
Les Halles's is a house variation called a plateau rouge, and it presents a vertical assortment of chilled red shellfish that includes lobster, several kinds of crab, shrimp and langoustines.
Yes, it will be the cooling whites and rosés I recommended below that many instinctively reach for as an aperitif, but a lightly chilled red can be just as refreshing and is often more likely to work with the kind of food that we will be eating.
Try removing white wine from the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before serving, and chilling red wine for 20-30 minutes before serving.
Lightly chilling red wine will help to reduce the alcohol taste, which can overwhelm other flavors when the wine is warm.[1].
"Name by name, this diminutive yet chilling red-lined Nazi-era artifact was a prelude to evolving persecution in Austria for those in the musical world," Shapreau writes in an article recently posted on the website of the Los Angeles-based OREL Foundation.
Charles Scicolone, a wine consultant and writer who specializes in Italian wines, said in an e-mail: "Even in the summer I do not chill my red wines unless the bottle temperature is so high that the bottle feels warm.
Every time she got a chill, bright red welts broke out over her back, arms or legs; her hands and feet swelled up painfully, and she developed a fever.
While polenta is chilling, prepare red bell pepper sauce.
