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In Reply to: taste a wine before its time? posted by Owen on August 20, 2001 at 04:58:59:
Owen, thank you for your excellent advice. I think you could add looking for sugar on the rim of the glass when you swirl the wine around as a preliminary to tasting. I never manage to keep to the bit about "spit, don't swallow" but you may do it as a profession or have greater will-power!My only experience of this is the "Great Australian Bottling Party" - I would imagine the same holds good for Cal residents. In Oz you can buy young wines in bulk, usually 44 gallon drums. This is like buying hay on the field. You save lots of money if you can handle the hassle and have the proper facilities. With hay you need a trailer, muscles, a barn, etc with wine you need bottles, corks (or equivalent), a bottling contraption, a sink, lots of friends, a bath/shower (both preferably) and a cellar. A few spare beds is a useful addition and the means of coping with copious supplies of vomit is a necessity...
First you bottle until you run out of bottles - then you drink the other 30 odd gallons. You find you have an orgy on your hands - so enjoy it. A few days later you have cleaned up, your headache has gradually dissapated, you have found the last pair of panties discarded in the most unlikely place, kicked your oldest friend from Uni out with or without his latest girlfriend/s and you look at all these bottles in the cellar and think "I won't touch them for 5 years". So you arrange them, date stamp them and work out that you should turn them a quarter turn every month and try one every 3 months. What really happens is that you find after you try the first one that you open one every time you don't want to open a special wine and you need a "vin (very) ordinaire". You make comments like "good thing this didn't cost much" and "Oh well the party was fun". After 2 years you find the wine is turning into a really good red but you only have 5 or 6 bottles left. That's life. Happens every time!
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