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by feraldoug
Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:36 pm
Forum: All About Wine
Topic: Competition - Guess the Number of corks
Replies: 93
Views: 16658

Lovely, generous idea. Thanks!

1465 is my daughter, Kia's guess. She says I can have the wine if she wins.

Doug
by feraldoug
Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:27 pm
Forum: All About Wine
Topic: Where do you store the majority of your wine collection?
Replies: 13
Views: 1717

I just installed a cooling unit in a basement room (well insulated). Should pay for itself compared with commercial storage in about 4 years. Prior to that I used a crawlspace under the SE corner of the house. Now my partner knows where everything is and boy, how our drinking patters have changed! D...
by feraldoug
Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:38 pm
Forum: All About Wine
Topic: Monitoring temp in controlled cellar
Replies: 4
Views: 1088

Monitoring temp in controlled cellar

Hello, For those of you with temperature controlled cellars; IÂ’m interested in how you monitor temperature or if you are using commercial facilities, what data they provide to you. First, some background. I have just completed installation of a cooling unit in a well-insulated, below gro...
by feraldoug
Thu May 19, 2005 3:26 pm
Forum: All About Wine
Topic: how long before a retailer/winery should ignore corked wine?
Replies: 12
Views: 2528

I have a retailer who knows me and they have never blinked at a return. They never taste to see if they think the wine is corked and they replace with the current release (or >= equivalent from the same distributor). Most of my recent returns have been early to mid 1990's rieslings. Roll on stelvin....