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• Red Wine Temperature Chris Coad 18:42:30 10/17/00 (3)
  In Reply to: Newbie has questions during Amnesty week posted by Wine Nouveau on October 17, 2000 at 18:34:52:

  The temperature at which you serve red wine varies a lot depending on personal taste--my wife and I always put a bottle of red that has been at room temperature into the freezer for about ten minutes before we drink it because we both like our reds in the sixties, not the seventies or eighties that is real 'room temperature' in the east.

  But plenty of our friends like their reds dead warm and look at us strangely when we ask to freeze it a little first.

  I especially find that bigger wines tend to show more alcoholic when they are very warm.

  Thanks for the first post--it gets easier,
  cc
  
  

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  • Thank you so much! A couple more questions... Wine Nouveau 18:57:32 10/17/00 (2)
    In Reply to: Red Wine Temperature posted by Chris Coad on October 17, 2000 at 18:42:30:

    I especially find that bigger wines tend to show more alcoholic > > when they are very warm.

    What exactly do you mean by bigger?

    > >
    my wife and I always put a bottle of red that has been at room temperature into the freezer for about ten minutes before we drink it because we both like our reds in the sixties, not the seventies or eighties that is real 'room temperature' in the east.
    > >

    Chris, English is not my first language, so excuse the errors.

    Do you think ice would work instead of the freezer?

    I have a special purpose for my freezer now. Recently, my dog snowball, passed away. I had read that your Walt Disney had been "cryogenically" frozen so he could be unfrozen and revived when technology allows it. I can't afford the cryogenic freezing so I lovingly wrapped snowball in freezer paper and she's now in our freezer. So you see Chris, there's really no room for extra boxes of wine.
    
    

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    • A book suggestion (and a money saving tip too) Eden Mylunsch 21:55:10 10/17/00 (0)
      In Reply to: Thank you so much! A couple more questions... posted by Wine Nouveau on October 17, 2000 at 18:57:32:

      I am sorry to hear about the passing of your beloved Snowball. Losing one's pet is often very tragic. It's funny that you mention this because just last week, Chet was talking about finding a hobby that we both could participate in (he says that he deals with numbers all day long and that he'll be damned if he starts up with a new hobby like wine that is all about numbers). Anyhow, we were cruising the internet and were on e-bay and discovered a hobby that was perfect for us. Taxidermy! We found a book called "Herter's Professional Course in the Science of Modern Taxidermy". It''s a great book and if you find a copy, maybe you could mount Snowball (so to speak, because I don't know where you're from or your local customs) and thus free up the space in your freezer. Then you could use Mr. Coad's method of wine freezing. It will also save you lots of money in wine storage expenses because you can just store your wine any old place but if you put it in the freezer for 10 minutes before you go to dinner, your friends will think that it's been at "cellar temperature" since you bought it and they'll accept the "cork" excuse as to why it's a bad bottle instead of figuring out that it's been kept in the closet with the water heater.

      So welcome to the Wine Asuylum, and good luck with Snowball!

      Keep on stuffed and smiling-

      Eden
      
      
      

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    • Ice would be fine Chris Coad 20:33:51 10/17/00 (0)
      In Reply to: Thank you so much! A couple more questions... posted by Wine Nouveau on October 17, 2000 at 18:57:32:

      I don't see why not. A few swirls in an ice bucket would have pretty much the same effect.

      I think the thing about Disney is just an urban legend, though.

      
      
      

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