Aged Wine Disappointment

[wineguruchgo]

I second what WW said about storage conditions and this goes way beyond your local retailer.

There are many distributors here in Chicago, yet the one I worked for was the only one to air condition the warehouse in summer.

The wines will bake in the warehouse then get put onto a truck - sometimes refridgerated, sometimes not.

Many trucking companies who do long distance trucking don't have air conditioned trucks, only the cabs.

Our distributor, when I was working for the French Importer, would pull out of the southern states warehouse during winter rather than the warehouse in NJ which was much closer because of climatic conditions.

There are so many variables here. I'm really sorry that you were disappointed.