KRUG REIMS CHAMPAGNE.

[tomstevenson]

Like Roberto I wonder "WHO in the hell forgets a half a case of Krug when they move?". I am also wary of attics, even in the UK. Contrary to common belief we do get the odd few hot days. It's currently hotter here than Hawaii (touching 30/86 and one day hit 37, that's 98.6 in your money) and we get one real long-hot summer and one freezing cold winter every 10 years, so that could be at least three hikes up and down in an attic. I don't recommend it anywhere, although, having said that, I'm on record a number of times about the occasion when my great aunt came around a few years after my book CHAMPAGNE was published. She presented me with a bottle of Moet NV, which she assured me had been in the attic at least 14 years because my great uncle had been dead that long and she didn't know when he'd put it there. With that track record including the record summer temperatures of 1976 and the wine just a non-vintage, I tried to let her down gently. When I tasted it, however, it was one of the finest preserved NVs I had ever come across. So the moral is never to give up hope, but hope is all, I'm afraid, keeping these wines alive.

Open and HOPE to enjoy!

Tom