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nitrogen wine storage?

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Joe Pfeiffer

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Mar 16, 2012, 1:01:13 PM3/16/12
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Not quite on topic, but close...

Went out to dinner last night, and asked for a glass of pinot grigio.
It arrived looking as fizzy as champagne with a lump of sugar, and the
explanation was that the restaurant used some sort of
nitrogen-atmosphere storage system for opened bottles of wine. Drinking
it, I could feel the fizziness on my tongue, and it tasted... well, not
quite like vinegar, but close enough (no, I didn't take a second sip.
It went back).

Anybody know anything about this system? And does it normally work to
preserve wine a while, or was my experience common?

Steve Peek

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Mar 16, 2012, 3:06:18 PM3/16/12
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"Joe Pfeiffer" <pfei...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message
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Sounds like someone either hit it with CO2 instead of nitrogen or managed to
pressurize the wine with nitrogen.


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