As temperatures plummet - what about our wines?
24 Nov 2005 by JR
Rami, GB: Urgent! I have always kept my wines in two very large Eurocave [temperature-controlled cabinets] and in professional wine cellars at LCB. Recently we have refurbished an apartment abroad and shipped one of the Eurocaves abroad. This caused many wines, from cheap Sicilians to very fine wines like Dal Forno and Lafite '86, to be put in the garage since August. Tonight I opened one bottle of Alary Cairanne which for some reason was atypically murky and showed precipitates on the walls of the bottle even though it was an '03 vintage. Have I damaged my wines? Should I be very worried or not? The temperature in England in our...

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