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QOTD: A 32-bottle wine rack (right across from where I work at home, where I can admire it all day long). 🙂

Haven’t had much need to build a cellar or buy a fridge, yet, since I can’t seem to leave a bottle alone long enough for it to age. Heheh.

QOTD- Wine fridge.

Go PATS!!

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I rent a temperature controlled storage unit in Pasadena. Holds about 400 bottles. Only problem is last minute wine decisions are difficult to fill when your wine is a 30 minute drive in traffic away from you.

I am gravatared!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thanks Gary for the CLIO comments.

I had already popped and drank by the time I watched the Ep.

I popped the 2003 at 2:30pm, did not decant, and drank with spaghetti @ 7:30pm. Loads of fruit on the nose, very pretty bright red color. Smooth mouthfeel, but not over the top silky. Drinking well, held its own to the pasta sauce. Great transitions of fruit from initial, mid, and finish was quite seamless. I rated a 93, which is high for me. As for QPR ~ average. Worth buying a couple bottles, but I wouldn’t run out and buy a case at $35/ea. Solid, fun for everyone. Thanks again Gary V. (You athlete you)

QOTD: Where do I store my wine? Well, in my basement, but that’s not good enough. I have about 850 bottles in my cellar so I bought a wine room kit from IWA that is kind of like a walk-in closet for wine with a cooling unit and it can hold about 1200 bottles of wine. You can see a reasonable facsimile at http://www.iwawine.com/orstore/showitem.aspx?productid=CR51M-002. I’ve had it for three years now and it is perfect for my size collection.

QOD — Just about anywhere – top of the fridge, closets, out back in the garage, wherever a wine rack fits. As you can see, we ain’t purists!
But when I was 8 years old, my folks bought a big old house in New Jersey, on the outskirts of town. It had a ‘cold cellar’ with a dirt floor – always dank, damp & cool , even in summer. It had dozens & dozens of old bottles of wine – covered in dust and cobwebs. Back then, they were just there – part of the woodwork. Since then, I’ve often wondered how old they were, how they got there – and whatever became of them — things I’ll never find out now…

Cheerio in London!

Bill V.

QOTD- Basement closet works fine. Temperature varies slowly from mid-50’s in winter to upper 60’s in summer. More importantly, no vibrations or sunlight to affect the wine. Enjoy London, Gary.

I feel riped off as i can’t get the 83 million due to the time difference 🙂

QOTD: most of my wines are spread over 2 wine fridges

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QOTD: I have a 50 btl wine fridge in the basement

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Sensei,

Have a great trip!

QOD – we have a 57 bottle wine fridge(GE Profile) built into our kitchen island and an overflow rack in dining room that holds about 50 bottles. Would really like a 400-500 storage cabinet from vinotemp….

Master, not sure we needed to know about the scalp thing……:)

Grasshopper

Wine Fridge!
Gots a small 42 bottle Haier. Works for me.

Ya…I’m late. QOD: I store all my wine here at work in our tempurature controlled warehouse. I just bring home what I’m going to want for the next day or two. I’m always sure to bring home my wine a few days earlier so that it can stand and get to room temp. I always have a few cheap-o’s hangin’ out at home in case something spur of the moment comes up.

OK…I’ll talk to you later. I gotta watch the weather episode (I was out of the office Thurs and Fri). See you later,

GO BEARS!!!
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mine wine “collection” is afew random bottles spread around the house, and a HUGE collection at the place I like to call my “Wine Library” which is a “storage facility” about 5 miles from my house. The only bad part about the wines I keep there is that I have to pay every time I go in to remove a bottle 😉

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Right now in a 360 bottle temperature contolled cabinet. In the house we are remodeling there is a basement that the architect is designing a wine room that will hold about 1500 bottles. Again have to thank you for what you do Gary. Introducing to new wines and wineries is always fun for me. Not just learning but tasting. My wife and I and our small (4 couples but goes up to 8 occasionally) wine tasting group just went through our notes for the last 15 years. We have averaged 300 bottles per year for 15 years of tasting and drinking. You have added about 50 more bottles for us to try and as people travel they bring back more. We will be having a tasting first weekend of March of all Paso Robles. Then because of your turning me on to Tensley and Los Olivos wines we will have an all Los Oilvos/Santa Barbara tasting. Any suggestions for Santa Barbera will be welcomed. We are doing a mix of red and white for both.

Ditto that Jay. I too have a 42 bottle Haier which is an exceptional QPR. Also, several more cases all over the place…

In a little fridge and under my bed. Small space baby.

Still sad in the ATL.