winecellar
Michael Frandsen
temparture celsius and which humity that is the best for the wine
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Ian Hoare
le/on Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:53:53 +0100, tu disais/you said:-
>im planing to make a wine cellar in the house and im wondering what
>temparture celsius and which humity that is the best for the wine
Anything between 8C and 14C with a very low diunal variation <0.25C and a
reasonable annual variation - say +- 4C will do. Changes are much more
damaging than a steady temperature that's a touch too high. The steadier and
lower the temperature the longer it takes for the wine to mature BUT it is
arguable that when it gets there it will be better.
(Tom (Ruddick) use your new found skills please to translate this for those
who don't know what this means in Fahrenheit). ;-)))) I put the centigrade
temperatures out of consideration for the fact that the OP lives in Denmark.
Humidity is less critical, but should ideally be over 50% and - if you want
your labels to remain intact - <80%. If it's a bit high, you can spray hair
lacquer on the labels.
Also remember that it's as well to keep a cellar vibration free and dark.
That said, I've not seen studies _proving_ any relationship between
degradation and vibration.
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Ian Hoare
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Bill Spohn
>lacquer on the labels.
After spraying a few hundred labels, I expect YOU'd be a bit high!
Unless you are keeping your wine in a flooded cellar (anyone watch Monarch of
the Glen?), I doubt your labels will have problems.
I have seen bottles in cellars that were covered head to toe (cork to punt?) in
a thick layer of mold, but that was in Normandy, and they'd been left alone for
50 years......
Bill Spohn
We knew a guy who was a bit of a twit - real label chaser.
When we were at his place once, we convinced him that some of his bottles had
particular value for the labels (e.g. Mouton), and that he should really have a
copy for insurance purposes.
By this time he'd got himself around most of a bottle of wine, and wasn't
thinking at even his regular mediocre level, so when he asked how he should
record his labels, we suggested that everyone else we knew just photocopied
them.
He had a photocopier, and gave it a try. The part of the label touching the
scanner bed was of course in focus, but nothing else. We said it was really
easy - you just had to get the knack of rolling the bottle as the copy was
taken.
When we left that night, he was still drinking, and was great fun to watch,
rolling bottle after bottle, nearly dropping them in the process, and making
frustratingly poor copies.
I think one guy even sent him a copy of a label he had removed from a bottle
and told him it was taken on the bottle using the technique - it just took
practice.
Most people would realize they'd been had in the cold light of day, but for all
I know that guy still spends his evenings rolling bottles across his
photocopier.
Ian Hoare
le/on 09 Jan 2004 15:01:14 GMT, tu disais/you said:-
>>If it's a bit high, you can spray hair
>>lacquer on the labels.
>After spraying a few hundred labels, I expect YOU'd be a bit high!
Wheeeee....
But not everyone buys their bottles by the gross, Bill!
>Unless you are keeping your wine in a flooded cellar (anyone watch Monarch of
>the Glen?), I doubt your labels will have problems.
Actually, I can't agree. I've got one bin, right in a corner of my cellar
where the labels rot after a couple of years.
I agree that it's not serious, but some people do get very anal about the
state of their labels, and it does no harm to give the information.
Bill Spohn
>state of their labels,
Rectum?
Well it sure didn't do them any good......
Emery Davis
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] I have seen bottles in cellars that were covered head to toe (cork to punt?) in
] a thick layer of mold, but that was in Normandy, and they'd been left alone for
] 50 years......
That fellow had a very dry cellar, for Normandy! :) I get some labels coming
unglued, which can lead to some fun tastings. They do rot a bit, which doesn't
bother me so long as they stay legible, which is usually the case.
-E
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Tom S
"Bill Spohn" <wsp...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Jeez, you guys are _cruel_! :^D
Actually, if you did it right that technique might just work though...
Tom S
Nils Gustaf Lindgren
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> Jeez, you guys are _cruel_! :^D
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> Actually, if you did it right that technique might just work though...
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"It愀 a million to one chance, but it might just work ..." - the fuel that
drives wouldbe inventors everywhere ... ;)))
Cheers
Nils Gustaf
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