DaveMcIntyre: The Definitive Word on Wine Storage

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Just showed up in the WashPost. In which he trots out all the trite shibboleths on what you need to do for proper wine storage:
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Just your usual crock of $hit. We find out that wine is a “living thing”. Well, “living” in the same sense that is a piece of iron rusting in the air. If the wine is “living” (active biological growth) it probably a natural wine and a wine I want to have nothing to do with.
We find out that a wine you store too long turns to vinegar. I’ve yet to have an old wine that was vinegar (high VA/EA level) unless it went into the btl w/ an active acetobacter culture present.
We learn that wine does not like to be stored in the presence of vibrations because wine does not like to be jostled.
This is the kind of crap that gives wine writing such a bad reputation. McIntyre should be ashamed to have his name on this article.
Tom

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Oh, for crying out loud, this is an article in the food section of the Washington Post. It is not for wine geeks. It is for people who drink wine and have heard that wine can be stored for a long time. He goes through what everybody who already collects and stores wine knows, but he isn’t writing for them. As for wine being a living thing, you know what he means by that, comparing wine to the life stages of human beings or to stereotypes of masculine and feminine characteristics goes on here all the time and hardly should raise this objection. This is like a physicist objecting to a journalist’s description of quantum mechanics. If that is your reaction, don’t read about your hobby in newspapers.

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