Cooked wine

[californiagirl]

Welcome to the board!

If I am reading the question correctly, we are talking about the Ca. hot sun... 80's or even 70's would be a perfect summer. But our average summer temp is 95* or hotter- we had over 20 days in a row last year over 100*. I would say that if you are at a party, or having guests over and entertaining in the heat... keep your wine cool. Wine Enthusiast as well as many wine retailers sell sleeves for wine bottles for this very purpose.

And, yes, IMHO California sun does affect wine. That would explain why a good majority of the wineries will not ship wine out during the hot spells. And if memory serves me, hotwine stated that he would not purchase wine from warehouse retailers during the summer for this very reason, (due to hot temps).