How do you measure wine temperature?

How do you measure the temperature of wine in the bottle (which is another way of saying the temperature of the bottle, which I realize may not be the same as the temperature of the wine)?

I am not trying to be funny, but simply trying to match the practical aspects of attempting to serve wines at specified temperatures with the conventional wisdom that specifies at what temperature certain wines will be best served.

Of course, I can get wines to 0C/32F by placing them in an ice bath. But how do you know, for example, that your wine is at, say, 45F?

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Reply to
Leo Bueno
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Er, with a thermometer - how else. (You can buy devices sold as wine thermometers.)

Reply to
Steve Slatcher

This one's good, although some of the recommendations of temperature at which to serve a particular wine are somewhat arbitrary.

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Regards,

Ian

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Ian Hayward
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Michael Pronay

Salut/Hi Leo Bueno,

le/on Sat, 09 Oct 2004 06:39:26 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Simple. There's a liquid crystal plastic strip thermometer which you place around the bottle.

The colour of the LCD display changes.

Reply to
Ian Hoare

Some time ago in California, I saw a thin plastic band being sold at wine dealers which had liquid crystal areas (each bearing temperature numbers) that became visible at different temperatures. The band was designed to be wrapped around a bottle. I don't know who made it or if it is still being sold. But, someone thought of your concept.

HTH

Godzilla

Reply to
Godzilla

Back about 1981, I purchased 5,000 of those thermometers to give away at conventions with our company name on them. At that time the retail price was less than $5us and they were on a metal sleve. Those liquid crystal strips are pretty but they seldom work more than 7 or 8 months. I had one (1) that lasted 5 years. Bill

Reply to
Bill Loftin

FWIW I had in mind a glass thermometer you stick INTO the wine. No rocket science involved, though you can get electronic gizmos you dunk in too.

Surely, the BEST the plastic strips can do is tell you the temperature of the outside of the bottle.

I picked up an electr>This one's good, although some of the recommendations of temperature at which to

Reply to
Steve Slatcher

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