On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:13:36 -0000, "dennis@home"
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>"Huge" > wrote in message
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>> On 2010-12-21, James Bendall > wrote:
>>> On 21/12/2010 11:14, john reed wrote:
>>>> The temperature around here at the moment is below freezing. Will it
>>>> hurt
>>>> bottles of wine to be stood out in our shed below freezing? I'm
>>>> wondering
>>>> how low the temperature can go before either the wine is affected or the
>>>> bottles fracture?
>>>
>>> There's a certain number of homebrewers who freeze their wine on purpose
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>> But not in glass bottles ...
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>Champaign is deliberately frozen in glass bottles.

Just the neck of the bottle is frozen for the purpose of disgorgement.

Ross.