wine users - Jun 2010 - Please help with advise on wine storage

Hi everyone,

I have a small problem. I bought a bottle of red wine from my home outside the
UK. It is a gift for a professor who I much admire. Unfortuately I have not been
able to get to her office in the last month so I had to store the wine in my
bedroom. It is in a box etc and of course I am storing it lying down however I
am worried that with the current weather of having 20 - 25 degrees outside in
the last 1 -2 weeks,  the wine might be gone off now. I would like to give this
as a gift but of course I don't want to give a gone off bottle. Should I be
worried?

I would appreciate any help/advise anyone can offer. 

Thanks,
D.

Oh dear god I just realised this is not that kind of forum whatsoever! Sooorrry!

> I bought a bottle of red wine from my home outside the UK.
> ..... Should I be worried?
For once an easy Wine question.

If the wine was bought 'fresh' from the vintner and is a half decent
wine you should have no problems with a couple of weeks storage at elevated
temperatures, a couple of months and it will be a different answer.

fw

Hewson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a small problem. I bought a bottle of red wine from my home outside
the UK. It is a gift for a professor who I much admire. Unfortuately I have not
been able to get to her office in the last month so I had to store the wine in
my bedroom. It is in a box etc and of course I am storing it lying down however
I am worried that with the current weather of having 20 - 25 degrees outside in
the last 1 -2 weeks,  the wine might be gone off now. I would like to give this
as a gift but of course I don't want to give a gone off bottle. Should I be
worried?
>   
Simple answer, you are going to have to give a go.  Sadly, it may have 
gone vinegary by now.  Reds however, are more tolerant of heat and 
should be stored at 58F.  68-75 may not have hurt it but it is best to 
keep it in a cool location.  BTW, there is a store (or was one) with 
that temp in its name here.  Good wines, high prices.

Now back to our regularly scheduled discussion on Wine is not an 
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James McKenzie