Wine cabinets

[original PM]

Like who has wine in the house for more than a day anyway?

[AtW]

Like who has wine in the house for more than a day anyway?

People who can plan ahead for years?

[Lockhouse]

We've got a wine cellar. The previous owner used to run a Champagne import business and it was licensed for 3000 bottles.

It's a decent ambient temperature and we generally only have to chill the wine down further for ten or fifteen minutes before it's ready to drink. Reds are more problematic as it can take two or three hours before the wine is properly room temperature.

[SimonMac]

Joys of a cave house is every room is temperature controlled constant 17 degrees so we just leave them in the crates

[OwlHoot]

Like who has wine in the house for more than a day anyway?

Exactly! Or even a day - Just buy a bottle in Tesco and drink the lot the same evening, and voila, no need for a wine cabinet!

Mind you, I've been buying demijohns in charity shops and suchlike for several months, and now have over a dozen ready to start making my own wine!

[AtW]

Stockpiling wine is essential for post-Brexit world.

HTH

[DimPrawn]

Stockpiling wine is essential for post-Brexit world.

HTH

Yes, because Chile, Argentina, California, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and even England don't produce any wines...

[vetran]

Yes, because Chile, Argentina, California, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and even England don't produce any decent wines...

FTFY

How Steven Spurrier enraged the French — and was never forgiven | The Spectator

But of course he couldn’t resist shaking things up a bit and so organised an event where French wine grandees would blind taste some top Californian wines against the equivalents from Bordeaux and Burgundy. According to Spurrier, there was no mischievous intent — the ‘Judgment’ was simply an attempt to demonstrate the quality of wines coming out of California. Many involved, however, were not amused when the Americans came out top; Spurrier describes being ‘physically thrown out of the Ramonet cellars by M. Ramonet’s son André for having caused such an insult to the family name’.

[vetran]

Yes, because Chile, Argentina, California, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and even England don't produce any decent wines...

FTFY

How Steven Spurrier enraged the French — and was never forgiven | The Spectator

But of course he couldn’t resist shaking things up a bit and so organised an event where French wine grandees would blind taste some top Californian wines against the equivalents from Bordeaux and Burgundy. According to Spurrier, there was no mischievous intent — the ‘Judgment’ was simply an attempt to demonstrate the quality of wines coming out of California. Many involved, however, were not amused when the Americans came out top; Spurrier describes being ‘physically thrown out of the Ramonet cellars by M. Ramonet’s son André for having caused such an insult to the family name’.

[sasguru]

If any of you cretins believe that New World wines are, in general, superior, or even equivalent to European, you don't know what you're talking about. An ocassional vintage and year, unusually, maybe. Although I fully agree that with global warming, English wines will get better.
Stick to drinking Carling Black Label and don't make fools of yourselves.