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Default TN: 2 Year Storage Experiment (Graves, Bojo, Rhone)

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 07:43:14 -0700 (PDT), DaleW >
wrote:

> We had 4 pairs of wines (plus several others that
> weren't part of experiment I'll put in a separate post). Three of the
> pairs were my test subjects. To recap, 2 years ago several of us on
> WLDG (including Mark Lipton) decided to do a test. The idea was to
> compare bottles we cellared with bottles that faced the equivalent of
> sitting in an average retail store. While some top shops keep store
> cool all of the time, your average neighborhood store probably doesn't
> keep store cooler than 70 or so in summer, and probably doesn't run
> the AC at night , etc.


I've snipped the details, but a terrific post, Dale, and very
informative. You did a kind of tasting I've wanted to do for years but
ever did.


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