I went to get a bottle of wine tonight and all of my wine was warm. I have
not gotten a bottle in a while because both myself and my girlfriend have
been in the hospital. The cooling unit was making a wierd nose a few days
ago. This happened before and it was ice forming on the fan. I unplugged it
for a while. When I plugged it back in it was OK for a while. It started
making the wierd noise again. Doing the process again it stopped making the
noise. I thought I had fixed it. Afterwards it worked for a few days. It
must have broken in the past few days. Of course I discovered the problem
on a Friday evening. I can't order a replacement cooling unit until Monday.
I can't get it delivered until Tuesday at the earliest. The defective
cooling unit produced some heat. I have the unit unplugged and the doors
open. The temperature has dropped a few degrees. My collection is down to
about 250 bottles. I have a few gems.

Fred.

"Fred" > skrev i melding news:5CBje.1093$wq.959@fed1read06...
> snipped... I have a few gems.
>
I think you meant to say "I had a few gems" (snicker :-)
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Well, a few days without cooling shouldn't be too bad, unless the wine rises
to above 75F...
Anders

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Oh stop Anders, that's mean. <g>

Fred, your wine will be fine for a few days. Don't worry, there should
be no problem. As Anders often points out, wine is reasonably tough
stuff.

-E
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"Fred" > wrote in message
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> My collection is down to
> about 250 bottles. I have a few gems.

If the wine got warm for only a few days, you're probably OK - especially if
they're reds. After all, the temperature during a red fermentation can
easily hit 100°F for a short time.

I've tasted wines that suffered greater abuse than that with no apparent ill
effects. One was a bottle of 1973 Mouton that spent a year in an
uninsulated trailer as its owner drove all over the country on tour with his
race car. We shared that bottle shortly thereafter (fearing the worst) and
it was fine.

Not that I'd advocate such treatment, of course, or that the wine's life
expectancy hadn't been somewhat shortened.

All that said, I'd suggest that you install some sort of electronic warning
device in your wine cooler to alert you to the _next_ failure. 250 bottles
is a lot of wine to put at risk. Also, you should consider that the time to
full maturity may have been shortened a bit by this incident.

Tom S