When a wine is placed in a room with warmer temperature, you will notice that the wine smells more alcohol. Wine exposed to higher temperature speeds up its aging process. You will end up heating the bottle removing the flavors and aromas of the wine. Too much cooler temperature results to dull-tasting wine. Ideally, red wine should be stored at around 55° F.
Each kind of wine has its own optimum serving temperature. As a rule of thumb, the temperature produced by a regular refrigerator is too cold for almost all white wines. It is ideal that if you chill your bright white wines in the wine fridge, set your temperature between 48 and 52 ° F. For sparkling wines, it should be between 50 and 55 ° F degrees.
For white wines like aged chardonnay, set the temperature level between 58° F and 62 ° F degrees. Light red wines such as young pinot noir, Chianti, and Beaujolais, the temperature must be set between 60° F and 65 ° F degrees. Heavy red wines should be kept between 63° F and 68° F degrees temperature.
Always remember that the ideal temperature for any wine depends on the amount of tannin, fruit, and alcohol it contains. Do not serve wine at a temperature above 70° F degrees.