Need your advice!!!

[Scott B]

I need you advice!!!
My wine cellar is located at my office and the A/C unit went out this weekend.
The wine got up to 89 degrees for several days. (possibly 3 days)
Is it ruined?

I had two years work, 1000 bottles in there.

 

[Bartman]

I don't think you have a problem. It probably had a gradual rise in temperature (rather than a sudden rise in ambient temperature, like being engulfed in a fire), and as long as you cool it back down gradually, the corks, bottles and their contents are probably fine.

Only one way to find out for sure - open 'em all up and drink 'em!

 

[AlFulchino]

any of the corks push?

 

[Wade E]

Yeah, like Al said is there any cork pushage? I took a few bottles to work one day and even though it was cooler out and the windows were cracked heat built up in the car to fast and made 2of 3 corks pop right out and luckily they didnt blow the back window out as they were aimed right at it!

 

[Scott B]

I will check the corks and let you know.

 

[Scott B]

Ok I went back to the office and checked the corks.
At 7:00pm I checked and the internal Temp of the wine was 80 degrees and no Corks were pushing out. In 2 hours the temp has dropped 9 degrees.


How long do you think I need to keep checking before I can feel sure it was not ruined? Or put another way, If it was damaged by the heat how long before the wine starts tasting bad?

 

[Scott]

Wine should still be good, no climate controlled transports when delivering to the store and gets mighty warm or cold.




Wine at the office? Are you hiring?

 

[Scott B]

Thanks Scott (great name!!)


Yep -wine at the office make the day go by much faster.


Thinking of changing the company name to Wines-R-us.