I have heard and read the comment about the vibration in a refrigerator
posibly being harmful to long term stored wine from other sources. I have
never done it and cannot say whether it is true. Common wisdom can be, and
should be, questioned. But I would not question it by risking years of my
wine production. It seems to be a "wisdom" that has set in. I would not go
against it unless I found clear information indicating it is not true. And
someone saying the don't think it is true is not clear information.

One should question old wives tales. But be willing to take the
consequences if you go against those tales without makeing sure they are
wrong.

Further, if you ask someone you consider an expert for advise but do not
hear what you want to hear, should you then ask people with less expertise
until you hear what you want to hear? Just do what you want to do in the
first place. You might be very happy with the results.

Ray

"Paul Arthur" > wrote in message
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> On 2007-05-15, Steve Daniels > wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> We bought some wine from Bob The Wine Guy
>> (http://www.cascadecliffs.com/). It's going to be better a
>> couple of years from now, not that there's much wrong with it
>> right now.
>>
>> I had an idea of taking an old refrigerator, modifying the
>> insides to hold wine bottles, and setting it to the highest
>> temperature it would run. We bounced this idea off of Bob The
>> Wine Guy, and he expressed a concern about the vibration of the
>> compressor messing up the wine.
>>
>> So could one insulate the bottles from the vibration using
>> something like water balloons or fiberglass insulation? Is the
>> vibration really that much of an issue?
>
> This is an example of received wisdom. Most people saying that this
> might be an issue have no personal experience, but are merely repeating
> something that they once heard someone express as a possible concern.
> And that person heard it from someone else, et cetera.
>
> Unless you have an extremely aggressive compressor, I wouldn't worry
> about vibration; I'd be more worried about uneven cooling or overly
> large temperature fluctuations, as they're much more likely to actually
> affect the wine.
>
> --
> You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
> --Joseph Conrad