My wife purred when she read this post ... !!!

"Max Hauser" > wrote in message
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> "Den" in ...
> >
> > We're thinking of buy a wine refrigerator to hold about 70 bottles of
wine
> > in our house.
> >
>
> This brings up a terrible, haunting problem that newcomers never ask about
> wine storage, because they cannot conceive it until they no longer are
> newcomers, and then it is Too Late. (This issue is perennial on online
> food-wine forums and ought to be an early topic in a "Wine FAQ" file.)
>
> Whatever your horizons in perceiving the amount of wine you will store,
> owning wine storage capacity opens those horizons wider. It is an issue
not
> of numbers but of attitude. It often occurs that the person who happily
> acquires space for N bottles, having never before possessed N bottles,
> somehow manages to acquire 2N or 3N bottles (which would not happen prior
to
> owning the storage capacity for N). The mental horizons grow FASTER than
> the storage capacity does. This works well for sellers of storage
capacity,
> who wring their hands in greedy glee, knowing that the habitué will
return,
> sooner or later.
>
> The situation may resemble the more powerful Opiate drugs, which change
body
> chemistry to create a physical need previously absent. Wretched case
> histories exist in which N grew steadily (like the growth in dosage of the
> uncontrolled opiate addiction). People are ruined. Southern California
is
> a famous locus for this issue, by the way, owing to its large
> wine-enthusiast population, warm climate, and lack of cellar construction
in
> houses. (When a wine-enthusiast entrepreneur I know undertook to build a
> high-quality refrigerated wine storage warehouse elsewhere, he first
visited
> Southern California to research the business. His outstanding facility by
> the way is called the Wine Bank, in Menlo Park, California.)
>
> Shame precludes my even hinting at how large N eventually became in my own
> case. (I have it under control now, of course. :-)
>
>