Do you have a wine cellar in your house?
I don't. But I wanna just so I can brag to people that I have a wine cellar.
shareYou can just lie.
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Doesn't everybody??
shareMost oenophiles begin with a wine rack. Wine must be stored by lying on its side, to keep the cork moist and expanded, to keep air from getting into the bottle and turning it into vinegar. This is why the sommelier in your restaurant presents you with the pulled cork when s/he pours a test tasting of the wine you ordered: to show the wine has been properly stored. If the cork is dry, it is your prerogative to demand another bottle.
Wine cellars become an option when you’ve several dozens of bottles in your larder. If you drink wine from bottles with twist-off caps, like Annie Green Springs, none of this matters.
You might be better advised to brag about your cellar dungeon. I know our gal Stratego can give you a lot of tips about that.
"You might be better advised to brag about..."
Coming from the most condescending, brazen liar, braggart and self-proclaimed expert on every serious topic under the sun on this board during the past 5+years. (eye-roll)
This post puts you in the lead for the ‘Pompous MC Goofball Of The Year’ award.
I’m voting for you Kane👍
Are you still a ‘gym rat’ with
Amazing Lateral muscles and still taking lessons from a world renowned Katana Master?
You are full of it, go sell a TV at BestBuy and then sweep the loading dock you fake.
“sweep the loading dock” 🤣👍
shareI wish we had basements in Australia but they aren’t a common thing.
Why? Because of the desert climate?
shareMore likely because in Australia we do things on the cheap.
There’s nothing wrong with getting the job done on the cheap, in fact it’s an admirable trait imo.
A tool kit, some gumption and high hopes can build nearly anything.
Yep. In Australia wine cellars are for the richer folk who can afford keeping a supply of wine. Most Australians if they want wine for a nice meal at a restaurant for example will buy a bottle from a liquor store as they need it and drink it. No need for storage.
I don’t have a wine cellar, that would be a mess, I’d never come upstairs if I had one.
But I do like the magazine and internet pics I see of Wine Cellars, they all look they belong in a murder mystery movie, very atmospheric and cool.
In the final season of Peaky Blinders (*No Spoilers*)
…two loving and loyal Brothers have a really serious conversation in a wine cellar…A wine Cellar is a good place to set a scene for a crime or mystery movie.
It’s a neat setting.
There are wine buffs in Australia of course and I knew a few people like that and met some people in the business back in the day but I was never an enthusiast. I didn't know what they were talking about most of the time when they were describing wines and the whole thing had an air of snobbery about it to me.
The ‘snobbery’ thing you mention is true, wine enthusiasts can be real bores, they drink like it’s a weird hobby.
They are getting drunk but acting real fancy.
Bullshit to that.
If we have to roll the glass around and sniff it there’s probably dog piss in the the glass, give me cheap rum, vodka or beer barkeep, the cheapest you have so I can have more, the ‘experts’ say it’s all going to kill us anyway so let’s continue on with our evening for fuck’s sake, we are all in.
I think that applies to lots of "Enthusiasts". They carry on as if want they are into is just so amazing and important and yet when you experience it, it's rather boring or you find out that the elite stuff isn't as good and sometimes worse than the cheap stuff that you prefer!
The most expensive hamburger in the world has stuff on it that you wouldn't care about or want on a burger. I saw a travel show where the Aussie reporter was doing a story on it and even he said he would kill for a fish and chip shop burger right now!
I have a 2 bottle strategy. First bottle is the good stuff, by the time I get to the second bottle, I could be drinking cooking vinegar for all I care, lol.
shareNot sure why. Most Aussie's live in non desert areas. We don't have things like tornado's like they do in the USA so perhaps most of us don't need a place to take shelter in. They might be useful during bushfires which we have often, probably not for floods which are also common in some places. They would be good in areas that get cyclones though.
I just did a quick Google and it does seem linked to price. Aussie homes now cost a fortune as it is. I grew up on American TV so have always liked the idea and love attics as well which also are not so common here.
Water pipes are buried below the frost line. That means digging down several feet in cold weather locations. So long as you're digging that deep, may as well dig out a basement.
It's why basements are less common in warm weather states like California. You'd expect Hollywood to reflect that. But most of America's population is still centered around the Great Lakes, in the Northeast/Midwest.
basements are cool.
shareCoolest basement I ever was at was several floors below street level--which contained a giant vault. I was working as a clerk at a brokerage firm at 120 Broadway in Manhattan, we took file cabinets on wheels filled with stock and bond certificates to the vault. This was around 1981. It's no longer used as you can see from the clip below:
https://m.facebook.com/SilversteinProperties/videos/inside-the-bank-vault-at-120-broadway/723702388996506/
Rodney Dangerfield joked that he got no respect--elevator men would look him over and ask, "basement?"
shareRodney was tops, and other famous comedians just loved him because he really was a funny and a really kind guy even in person.
I spent about 50 minutes watching old Norm MacDonald clips and about a half hour of Rodney Dangerfield today on YouTube, I could barely turn either of them off.
They KILLED!
I love a lot of comedians but Norm and Rodney just always slayed me, they had hilarious stuff, the greatest.
I watched Bill Burr: Live At Red Rock tonight and Burr is a KILLER too. Burr attacks PC culture and is fearless and he seems to ‘wing it’ at times, the guy is smart and very funny.
👍🏻
sharei thought you didn't drink alcohol?
shareYeah - it's called a wine fridge. LOL.
shareI have a wine chiller.
shareNo as I'm not a Carrington or a Ewing. 🤷♀️🤷♀️
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