Wine with your 100LL?

I've got no problem with that at all. I suspect a lot of socialization
goes on in the hangers after flying. I'm just new to this aviation
scene, and haven't developed a good sense of how different folks do
their thing at the airport. Me? I just go there to get access to my
wings. Or work on it.

Many of the world's problems have been solved in our hangar, at the end
of a nice, long flight, whilst supping on a cold adult beverage. And
everyone at the airport knows there is always a cold one with their
name on it in our fridge.

Everything in moderation.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

John Gaquin wrote:
"Tom Conner" wrote in message news:ec6rf.2555

I think the issue was that the wine was in a box. .....


Wine in a box...... wine with a screw cap....... won't age properly in a
box...... plastic liner might leave a taste....

OY! How many people go to their local booze shop, buy a $12 bottle of
wine, and leave it in their basement for 7 years? Please!! Wine in a box
is clearly meant for rapid consumption, (at the party tonight, with dinner
tomorrow) and it doesn't amount to a hoot in hell what its packaged in -- it
likely was aged in the same vat. I think part of the resistance among
certain groups is that with economies and efficiencies in distribution as
well as production, decent quality wine will become more easily affordable
to the "lower classes", thus diluting the exclusivity. On the other hand,
to some palates, it may make a real difference. Remember, though, we're
all bozos on this bus! Jay (and I) like the juice of rotting grain, while
others prefer the juice of rotting fruit. Can anyone truly explain this?

Merry Christmas!


Well crap!I was going to make a box wine cellar in my hangar for aging
investment grade box wines.

Seriously though, I understand few wines are suitable for aging. Most
are sold for immediate consumption. Box wine would be great for the
hangar. BTW my hangar beer is Natty Lite except for special occasions
then we get out the home brew wheats. So you can tell by my tastes I am
a serious wine/beer snob.

"tom" wrote in message
oups.com...
I fly out of CVO (Corvallis, OR), a small non-towered airport. While
walking to the porta-potty this afternoon I walked past the dumpster.
Naturally I looked in to see what was there, and I was pretty surprized
to see several of the empty wine boxes. Now tell me how many folks
keep wine in their hanger.

It's a left coast thing... Here in Texas, we keep beer in our hangars...
Hell, I keep a couple of cans in the cooler in my plane for after I get to
my destination also... No big deal...

Jose wrote:

Actually, the ability to consume it =not= in volume. Since air makes
wine go bad, if you can prevent air from getting in, it's always fresh,
even if you only have half a glass today and half a glass three months
from today.

Well, I guess if people hate wine so much that they would open a bottle and
drink only a glass or two in the space of three months, they deserve to drink
the crap that comes in boxes. Conversely, if they buy a box of wine, they
probably would get into the habit of drinking it very slowly (if at all).

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

Jay Honeck wrote:

Is it not possible to have a fine wine that happens to be packaged in a
modern, convenient container?

It probably would be possible. Nobody that makes fine wines does this at the
present time.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

Jose wrote:

There's a controversy about using cork or screwcaps now too; it looks
like screwcaps will win this one as cork is getting scarce and has its
problems.

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

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

A couple of places that I've dined at let's us keep our unfished
bottles in their wine cellar(chilled icebox) for when we come back next
time. If recorked and stored in such a way that the cork stays wet,
wine actually keeps for awhile... :^)

Last time I was in France, I filled two suite cases with wine in
bottles wrapped in my shirts, pants, in socks...etc. The customs guy
could tell that the suite cases were VERY heavy the way I carried them
and he asked me what was in the suite cases and I responsed, "A bunch
of wine..." with a smile and he didn't even bothered to open the suit
cases. This was prior to 9-11.

Most times I can only do at most two or three glasses at a sitting, my
wife however can keep on truckin' when it comes to drinking wine. :^)

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. :^)

The Monk

John G wrote:
How many people go to their local booze shop, buy a $12 bottle of wine, and leave it in their basement for 7 years? Please!!

Probably not many, but I have two daughters, ages 8 and 10. When they
were born, I went out and bought a box of wine (twenty four bottles I
believe) in the year that each one was born. When they get married,
that will be one of their wedding presents, I have laid the bottles on
the sides so the cork stays wet. That'll be some aged wine when they
open them :^) If I can keep my wife from finding them first : ^ ) so
far so good...

The Monk

"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.
--
Jim (former alcohol hobbyist) tin NC

Jim wrote:
It is a good idea to rotate them 90 degrees every 3 months or so.

Thanks, got that covered. One of my brother-in-laws is a frog wine
snob. :^)

The Monk