Built a wine cellar under my house.

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Posted: 2/4/2006 4:20:30 AM EDT

It's the right temperature but how do I keep the caps from rusting?

Mild Bill

Posted: 2/4/2006 4:24:59 AM EDT

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It's the right temperature but how do I keep the caps from rusting?

Mild Bill

Cosmoline.

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:21:44 AM EDT

[#2]

You could start by buying wine WITHOUT screw tops! Any wine with a screw top is not worthy of storing, ok for drinking, but not storing.

If it doesn't have a cork, you must not store!

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:22:47 AM EDT

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You could start by buying wine WITHOUT screw tops! Any wine with a screw top is not worthy of storing, ok for drinking, but not storing.

If it doesn't have a cork, you must not store!

+1

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:23:30 AM EDT

[#4]

How did you manage that "under the house" here in Florida?

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:24:02 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Quoted:
You could start by buying wine WITHOUT screw tops! Any wine with a screw top is not worthy of storing, ok for drinking, but not storing.

If it doesn't have a cork, you must not store!

+1

Didn't they decide that wine with caps stores and ages better.....

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:24:08 AM EDT

[#6]

Convert it to gun storage.

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:25:10 AM EDT

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Didn't they decide that wine with caps stores and ages better.....

Maybe I'm just old fasioned

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:49:12 AM EDT

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How did you manage that "under the house" here in Florida?

Crawl space.

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:52:54 AM EDT

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I tried to build a cellar, but all the dead bodies were in the way

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:58:00 AM EDT

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You could start by buying wine WITHOUT screw tops! Any wine with a screw top is not worthy of storing, ok for drinking, but not storing.

If it doesn't have a cork, you must not store!

I can't find any fortified wine with corks.

Posted: 2/4/2006 6:03:12 AM EDT

[#11]

Lawdog's troll account has a troll account?

G

Posted: 2/4/2006 6:09:02 AM EDT

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It's the right temperature but how do I keep the caps from rusting?

Mild Bill

there is nowhere in Florida where it will be the right temp year-round.

Posted: 2/4/2006 6:11:21 AM EDT

[#13]

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You could start by buying wine WITHOUT screw tops! Any wine with a screw top is not worthy of storing, ok for drinking, but not storing.

If it doesn't have a cork, you must not store!

Actually this was dealt with recently in a wine column I read. WRONG!

Many top producers of wine are now going to screw caps because they ensure that the wine will not get "corky" should the cork begin to rot - which can happen. Imagine your surprise if a cork went bad and ruined a $400 bottle of wine. I believe that is one of the reasons some wines have switched to an inert type synthetic cork that can not rot, but still maintains the mystique of a cork over a screw cap.

A screw cap no longer relegates wine to the Mad Dog 20/20 rack behind the liquor store counter.

Posted: 2/4/2006 6:12:04 AM EDT

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Florida? Unless you are in North Central, I can't see having a wine cellar underground. I'd just invest in a nice climate controlled wine storage unit for the kitchen. I have some friends with them.

- rem

Posted: 2/4/2006 6:19:14 AM EDT

[#15]

The wines I am referring to, that have corks are either real or synthetic corks. I have both types in my wine racks. The screw tops I am thinking about are the ones you find at Wal-Mart that run about $6 for a 1.5L.

As far as the $400 bottle of wine that was ruined by a broken down cork, it wouldn't happen in my house.
I would never have a $400 bottle of wine unless it was given to me or if I won the lottery.

GlockSpeed31

Posted: 2/4/2006 6:59:47 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Quoted:
You could start by buying wine WITHOUT screw tops! Any wine with a screw top is not worthy of storing, ok for drinking, but not storing.

If it doesn't have a cork, you must not store!

Actually this was dealt with recently in a wine column I read. WRONG!

Many top producers of wine are now going to screw caps because they ensure that the wine will not get "corky" should the cork begin to rot - which can happen. Imagine your surprise if a cork went bad and ruined a $400 bottle of wine. I believe that is one of the reasons some wines have switched to an inert type synthetic cork that can not rot, but still maintains the mystique of a cork over a screw cap.

A screw cap no longer relegates wine to the Mad Dog 20/20 rack behind the liquor store counter.

I would never drink Mad Dog. Mostly I have Wild Irish Rose (November) and Thunderbird (August). Those are considered real good months.

Posted: 2/4/2006 7:14:42 AM EDT

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Lawdog's troll account has a troll account?

G

Damned sure looks like it.

Posted: 2/4/2006 7:47:06 AM EDT

[#18]

MadDog . . . ah, the memories . . .

Posted: 2/4/2006 7:50:06 AM EDT

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MadDog . . . ah, the memories . . .

You can still remember anything after drinking that shit? I remember... well I remember there WERE weekends... just can't remember shit about what happened during them!

Posted: 2/4/2006 7:58:54 AM EDT

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Even the synthetic corks don't screw on and BTW, there happens to be a shortage of cork. You can keep that screw on cap stuff in the garage.....next to the still.

Posted: 2/4/2006 8:46:44 AM EDT

[#21]

I think you should be concerned about the cardboard boxes decomposing. Doesn/t all great wine come in a box with a spout?

Posted: 2/4/2006 8:50:41 AM EDT

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I think you should be concerned about the cardboard boxes decomposing. Doesn/t all great wine come in a box with a spout?

Don't you know they have a tin foil bag inside to keep it fresh and chewey for up to 100 years? After you consume it and start to have hallucinations you can fashion a hat from it!

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