Comments on: Reefer madness! Do Americans get worse Australian wine than Japan? http://www.drvino.com/2008/03/26/reefer-madness-do-americans-get-worse-australian-wine-than-japan/ wine talk that goes down easy Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:32:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Benito http://www.drvino.com/2008/03/26/reefer-madness-do-americans-get-worse-australian-wine-than-japan/#comment-85774 Benito Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:47:51 +0000 http://drvino.com/2008/03/26/reefer-madness-do-americans-get-worse-australian-wine-than-japan/#comment-85774 Similar problem with wine deliveries in hot states. As we all know, dark colors absorb infrared radiation while light colors reflect it. Tom Wark <a href="http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2006/06/fedex_v_ups_who.html" rel="nofollow">wrote about this</a> a while back: Wine shipped via FedEx is less likely to be "cooked", because the white trucks are cooler inside than the dark brown/nearly black UPS trucks. The biggest problem I have with cooked wine is when I go to someone's house for a gathering. The host/hostess are not wine fans, but they have a bottle in the house, and knowing that I like wine, they offer it to me. Now, they opened it two years ago and it's been sitting next to the stove the whole time. It's always interesting to try something that's descended from wine to a madeira-like beverage to a vinegar to something that Satan himself would refuse and pour down the drain in order to punish whatever sub-hells lurk below. Similar problem with wine deliveries in hot states. As we all know, dark colors absorb infrared radiation while light colors reflect it. Tom Wark wrote about this a while back: Wine shipped via FedEx is less likely to be “cooked”, because the white trucks are cooler inside than the dark brown/nearly black UPS trucks.

The biggest problem I have with cooked wine is when I go to someone’s house for a gathering. The host/hostess are not wine fans, but they have a bottle in the house, and knowing that I like wine, they offer it to me. Now, they opened it two years ago and it’s been sitting next to the stove the whole time. It’s always interesting to try something that’s descended from wine to a madeira-like beverage to a vinegar to something that Satan himself would refuse and pour down the drain in order to punish whatever sub-hells lurk below.

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