Open as many bottles as are needed to satisfy your guests. When I have a dinner party I make sure I have something for everyone. If that means having five or six bottles open at once, so be it. What's more important, happy guests or worrying about left over wine. Believe me, if your guests are happy there will be very little leftover wine.
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Some bottles of wine are best drunk immediately - exposure to air helps them not at all. Other bottles of wine evolve over days, so that their peak profile isn't until day 2 or 3. Unless you know the wine well, or belong to CelkarPass or Wine Spectator and can read about it, you may be missing out on the wine's optimal flavor profile. Or not.
This column is great. Curmudgeons' Corner! Well done sir.
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Does the husband drink all those bottles of wine? That would possibly signify a problem greater than the opening of all those bottles of wine. I'm picturing the two of them at dinner at home, alone at the long banquet table strewn with scores of half-drunk bottles, husband gradually fading to a stupor. The Kitchen - such a fun show - last week had a segment on how to use wine bottles for cute little crafty projects, one of which resembled a Molotov cocktail, so I gather that an excess of wine bottles is a common problem.
People who appreciate subtle differences in wine open multiple bottles frequently as a part of their experience...it's a different experience then just drinking the wine...let's not should the experience on either side, lest we come off as snobs judging people as snobs in a snobbish bit of self justified snobbery...a rose by any other name is still a rose
My system beats them all. Collect, do not discard, used (but clean) plastic/glass bottles of all sizes. ANY wine remaining before sleep is poured into the appropriate vessel and topped off....no air inside. I have a half-dozen different wines thus stored in my fridge. Have no idea what they are (all table wines anyhow) but they're as fresh as any Tête de Cuvée.
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Easy to solve - buy a Coravin. It's a fine needle that you stick through the cork to extract any amount of wine that you want, which squirts Argon into the bottle as its retracted. This inert gas won't interact with the wine, but it will ensure no oxygen enters the bottle, so the wine won't oxidise. In any case, the cork will naturally close around the minute hole.
The Coravin system has been extensively tested and is used by top sommeliers across the world. Every bottle tapped by a Coravin will remain fresh for years. The gadget will cost about $300, an amount that will easily pay for itself in unwasted wine.
The Coravin system has been extensively tested and is used by top sommeliers across the world. Every bottle tapped by a Coravin will remain fresh for years. The gadget will cost about $300, an amount that will easily pay for itself in unwasted wine.
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It's really as simple as what wines?
(I don’t know for sure because I’m tired of listening to them).
That is the funniest truest thing I've heard all day. I like to mix my wine one to one with water. It taste better to me. Why should I let some wine person tell me exactly what percentage of alcohol my wine should be?
That is the funniest truest thing I've heard all day. I like to mix my wine one to one with water. It taste better to me. Why should I let some wine person tell me exactly what percentage of alcohol my wine should be?
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You need your own stash, so you can open a nice bottle of wine when you want to.
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If he wants to open a whole case of wine at once, fine. Let him drink it.
You, on the other hand, can drink one bottle at a time, and open up a fresh one (or two, or three, as you liver allows) every day.
If you catch him drinking your "new" wine preferentially over his "old" wine, though, he's got to chug every bottle he's got open.
Or you could get one of those fancy thingies that fill the bottle with nitrogen, so that it keeps longer.
You, on the other hand, can drink one bottle at a time, and open up a fresh one (or two, or three, as you liver allows) every day.
If you catch him drinking your "new" wine preferentially over his "old" wine, though, he's got to chug every bottle he's got open.
Or you could get one of those fancy thingies that fill the bottle with nitrogen, so that it keeps longer.
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You can solve this problem with a wine keeper system. Basically you replace the air in the bottle with nitrogen. An inexpensive method is to by bottles of the gas, flush it into the wine when you are ready to cork it then put the cork in. The best way is to invest in a dispensing system that can keep multiple bottles on tap at a time, with the nitrogen filling the empty space in the bottles from the moment you open them.
An oversize copy of your illustration will do for the mask.
Has "Andrea" not heard of VacuVin?
Has "Andrea" not heard of VacuVin?
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Owning a Coravin would resolve all wine and domestic issues
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I applaud the strategy of several open bottles at once; you never know what you want to comprise your next sip. Merlot followed by a gamay? How does a traditional Chablis taste when rinsed with a barbaresco? Let's find out! The palate must be allowed to experiment and explore! I also recommend this tactic when drinking beer - open all the bottles at once. Get that pesky carbonation out of the way to really get at the malt backbone.
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John,
Stay with your strengths.
The Soup Nazi shtick cute.
Wine Nazi, not so much. Half a bottle of wine per person is an average consumption level over an evening. Three bottles, therefore is appropriate for six people=not weird.
Cheers,
Richard
Stay with your strengths.
The Soup Nazi shtick cute.
Wine Nazi, not so much. Half a bottle of wine per person is an average consumption level over an evening. Three bottles, therefore is appropriate for six people=not weird.
Cheers,
Richard
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Yes wine fetishism IS totally serious. The Judge must be a bad person to make lite of it.
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