No-one is born knowing instinctively how to drink wine. Instead, we arrive into this world screaming and naked, blissfully unaware of how to swill a glass or what carbonic maceration is.
Wine is a language we learn to speak through a long, expensive process of trial and error. Often we ape the actions of those we regard as more fluent in this language than us, which forms core rules in our mind about what we ought to drink and how we ought to drink it. One of these rules is the following: white wine must always be served cold, and ideally, from an ice bucket.
