Wine with your 100LL?

Morgans wrote:
"Flyingmonk" wrote

I have laid the bottles on

the sides so the cork stays wet. That'll be some aged wine when they
open them :^)


It is a good idea to rotate them 90 degrees every 3 months or so.
And you might want to check with a "expert" as I seem to remember from
my friend the wine salesmen that most wines don't last that long. as I
recall it was 8-10 years for reds and 3-5 for whites, but don't quote me
on it. I think it has something to do with the alcohol content that
hard liquor ages but wines have more of a shelf life.

Well, screwcaps aren't really players yet. What is becoming more and more
popular is synthetic corks. They seem to work very well.

I've heard one fairly well-known CA winery owner, and the eastern rep
of another, say, in almost the same words, "There is no California
winery owner who would not love to switch to screwcaps, but no one has
the guts to be the first.

Then, two or three years ago, I read that a winery owned in part by
the Gettys offered for sale a Chardonnay (IIRC) for $130 a bottle; but
for an additional five dollars you could get it with a screwcap!

How's that for reverse snobbery?

vince norris

Here in Northern Virginia, there are several (maybe thirty) vineyards
that are open for wine tasting in the summer and when we go visit those
places, I'm the desinated driver. :^)

Although I live in PA, I've attended two Virginia state-wide "tent
meeting" tastings--most recently the one last summer near Winchester,
on a terribly hot and humid day. We gave up and left after about 1.5
hours; it was so unbearable.

But before we left we had tasted some excellent wines. I was
surprised that they are even making good wines down in the tidal area
near Williamsburg, which I would have thought the worst place in the
world to try to raise grapes.

vince norris