STORING UNFINISHED BOTTLES

[tomstevenson]

Hi Dick! The most adverse remarks I get to the suggestion of a microwave is - and this really wont come as much of a surprise - from the older member of the British wine trade. These are the people who (kindly) invite you to lunch at their offices on a chilly, snow-swept winter's day and proudly point to the bottles of claret and Port they have warming in the fire place. The heat is fierce, with one side of the bottle boiling hot, the other freezing cold. When you mention a microwave they tut-tut and say "Wouldn't even try it old boy. A microwave's much too aggressive!".<br>No Dick, I don't think we've met, but I'm due on the West Coast twice this year and the way these things go, we'll probably meet up accidentally. It's a bit like discovering a new word then finding it in everything you read.