We had a once in a 100 year flood last night - 5 inches of rain in 2 hours - the local cleanskin (non-branded) wine shop and others were flooded up to about 1.5 metres. The wine shop owner asked me if the flooded wines would be OK. I said I thought he might get floodwater taint through the cork. Any ideas / experience on this?
Cheers! Martin
Are you trying to create a buying opportunity? ;^)
The only thing it would hurt is the labels.
Tom S
Drinkable wines have been salvaged from sunken ships; don't give it a second thought.
pavane
I've bought flooded wine from Mosel cellars - no problem in any way, only to the wineries that had to wash the bottles clean... Anders
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I often immerse bottles of wine in ice/water mixtures to chill them. Never a problem with water taint, even when the water is considerably colder than the wine inside.
Dana
And whilst on the subject of flooded wine, how are things in the storm struck south of France, Mike.
Hope that those swimming lessons came in handy !!!
Seriously, hope all is well
st.helier (New Zealand - where December represents the first month of summer !!!)
All is well at my place, got up in the middle of the night to check for water rising, despite several hours of incredible downpours nothing happened.
Marseille was hit quite badly, and last night I dared to go to a tasting in Aix en Provence, really weird, NOBODY was on the highway except for me. Apart from the wind gusting to 140, there was no problem, but there were warning signs that the highway was closed at Nimes.
We kind of expect violent storms in the South. Even the Toulon area, about the most arid in France, experiences over 600 mm of rain per year. Problem is, it all comes down in a few days... but this is the first I recall getting rain in a hurricane, the water was literally coming from the east (usually it comes from above!).
This morning, the sun is shining.
Mike
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