I’m always amazed that people STILL keep their wine at room temperature, thereby risking spoilage of the wine. Never mind the fact that warm wine is not easy on the palette.
It is therefore with great amusement that I acquired a wine fridge(Thanks Boardmans) and people constantly ask me why my wine is the perfect temperature.
The picture is blurred because I AM drunk
In fact…I have just passed out in the fridge
The wine fridge comes with two setting, one for white wine, and one for red wine. However I stock both white and red wine, and put the white wine at the bottom of the fridge because it is always a bit cooler at the bottom.
Trust me the last thing you want to do is invite some bird round and you give her some warm wine. You want to come right don’t you? YES!
Some people say that a wine fridge is not that necessary. Well I tell you what, a car is not necessary either, but it’s damn convenient! Just as you would struggle to convince someone to marry you if you rode a bicycle everywhere, so you will battle to convince a girl that you are worth dating if you are serving her horribly warm wine.
Do you think George Clooney pimps around his villa on Lake Como in Italy serving poor quality wine at the wrong temperature? No. Exactly.
Do you want to live like George Clooney? I think you do.
It also looks damn good when you walk into someones house and they have a wine fridge because it shows you are not dealing with just any commoner. It shows you are dealing with someone with style and class, who knows where they are going in life. I made that up on the spot I don’t even know what it means.
Wine at the correct temperature is a delight and you will want to drink more wine. More more more! It’s so damn good and the only thing better would be to have your own temperature controlled cellar. But even then it’s nice to have a wine fridge so people can amble into your kitchen(All Miele equipment with Global knives) and select what bottle they want. At the perfect temperature obviously.
There is nothing more excessive than having a fridge dedicated solely to the pursuit of drinking. It these displays of style that put you a cut above the rest and make you stand out with understated style.
The wine fridges used to be available at Boardmans under the Boardmans name, but I strolled to Boardmans in Claremont, Cape Town, last week and the guy there said they don’t stock them anymore.
So to cut the hassle of finding them, I went to Makro in Ottery and found two there. Granted they are only half the size of mine, but that’s what we are dealing with at the moment. I have the full on alcholic size wine fridge and it holds some 60 bottles, while the ones at Makro only hold 30 bottles. I suppose that will do for most of you though.
Mine never stays full of wine for long anyway as the thought of drinking wine at the temperature the bottle states is a novelty that will never EVER wear off. I usually get it to about ten bottles full and then just knock those bottles down the hatch. But the mere fact that I can store 60 bottles of wine excites me no end. It gives me more joy than you would believe.
As you can see by the photo above, having a 60 bottle wine fridge allows you to pass out in the fridge, looking pasty and pale, without having to actually care! It’s basically a right you are prescribed when taking delivery of the fridge. Is that not too fantastic for words?
Well, last week I found two wine fridges for you, available at Makro in Ottery:
There is a Kelvinator 40 bottle fridge going for R2499(2499 ZAR) and it is very nice, but I preferred the Samsung when looking at in in the store. Click MAKRO to see the Kelvinator.
Personally I would go for the Samsung 30 bottle fridge which was selling for R2999(2999 ZAR) at Makro in Ottery. It is black in colour and looks slick enough to fit neatly into any modern kitchen. Click MAKRO to see that fridge.
Talking of wine…there is a bottle waiting or me right now.
It’s delicious.
Cheers
Sean Lloyd
Editor
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