Shipping in Summer

[Thomas]

Here's another thought: what did people do to protect wine from heat and cold 225 years ago, when Jefferson had wines shipped to him from Europe, etc.?

By Jefferson's notes, it seems the wines generally did not suffer from the ordeal.

In fact, just last week I opened a bottle of 1983 Bordeaux that belonged to my brother-in-law, who knows zip about wine. The wine was given to him as a gift. He promptly stuck it in his wine rack, which is located in the kitchen. That was in 1995.

For the next 12 years that wine sat in the rack, going through every temperature change that a kitchen can cause, but when I opened it, and despite a cork that disintegrated when touched by the corkscrew, the wine was absolutely marvelous.

It seems to take extreme conditions to kill a good wine.




[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 08-24-2007).]