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To: Glass Bead Player who wrote (30)	4/28/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: Michel Bera	Respond to of 37

Reese, As for rotating the bottles, I am surprised. Of course champagne uses this (with rather funny technology, where the whole case of hundreds of bottles rotates everyday 90ø) to get material around the cork, and then the bottle is opened, liquor comes to be included more or less due to different tastes (brut, semi-doux, etc.). Some wines have heavy deposit, and the bottle, if rested for many years, will show one of its sides becoming brown from the depot. My real concern is more temperature stability in wine cellars and vibrations : both kill the wine in a very short time. For your second question, there are two answers : - either you drink the wine immediately after transportation,I mean no more than two hours. My personal recommendation would be to keep the bottle in some kind of thermos, at your cellar temperature, not restaurant temperature, and bring it out and open it almost at the last moment. You must try to reproduce what french epicurians do : they bring the bottles from the cellar (14øC) to the "cellier" (18øC, storeroom (?), the room close by the kitchen, where in french mansions vegetables and fruits are kept at fresh, remember these are times and places where no air conditioning exists). It waits there until being opened, around two hours before drinking. - either you wait, after transportation in a car, for at least fifteen days for it to recover at the restaurant (make sure they keep it in a cool place) and taste it then. (of course I am talking of really great bottles, which I think that you are talking about - for very old burgundies/clarets, you will have to trade off the opening timing : two hours may be too long for an aging wine, where as we all tasted once the very first glass as a kind of evanescing "chant du cygne" (swam's song) of finesse, and the other ones are very dull compared to it. I hope that I helped answering your question ! Regards, MiB