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Wine refigerator
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> > 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. :-) |
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My wife purred when she read this post ... !!!
"Max Hauser" > wrote in message ... > "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. :-) > > |
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