Lots of bad, even stupid, advice out there

WINE TALK
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What idiot wrote this? Did they actually get paid for this piece? Now I have to Google blacktailnyc or whatever…

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I guess I have to be the one to come in and say that was not written by a person.

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My favorite part:

Keeping Dom Perignons at a consistent temperature of 52 to 59 degrees Fahrenheit, in complete darkness, is a good storage technique. > Because the bottles already contain enough humidity, there is no need for them to be laid on their sides like with wine.

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What the actual f did I just read? That looks like an AI bot writing to be fair.

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Exactly what I was about to say.

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Isn’t having a machine learning to write articles for us a little like having a robot lift weights for us at the gym? Seems like we should be focused on keeping the skill set ourselves…

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If this is AI written, we should have nothing to fear about computers becoming sentinent beings.

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Skynet feels insulted by this post.

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Looks like a group of buddies who started a NYC bar with fancy cocktails, and also started a product review website to get some Amazon referral revenue. C-grade blog content but seems to be working for SEO.

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Sounds like the kind of crowd that would pour Popov into their top shelf Grey Goose bottles

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That is brilliant logic, in a bizarre alternate universe sort of way.

Storing a wine standing up will speed up its aging and the oxygen/air ingress into the wine…a good thing for a tight young wine, a bad thing generally for older wines and Champagne (the cork is an important limiting factor as well, but gas to liquid is still the top dog). The big limiting factor for getting oxygen/air into the wine (in a bottle) is getting it from a gas form into a liquid (i.e. the wine). The larger the wine surface area available, the faster it will diffuse into the wine. If the bottle is on its side, the surface area of the wine, mostly against the cork, will be a tiny fraction compared to the bottle standing up…hence slower aging & oxygen ingress into the wine. Woo Hoo.

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“However, it won’t have the nice bubbly effect it once had, so it won’t be safe to drink.” [pwn.gif]

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Hey now … better watch your fingers, mister!

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But, when a bottle is standing up, there is only a small disc of exposed wine (in the bottle’s neck); when the bottling is laying down, there is an elongated oval of exposed wine, which I hypothesize may be of greater surface area than the aforementioned disc. If true, doesn’t standing the bottle up actually minimize the “wine surface area available”?

I’ve always been under the impression wine is best stored laying down to prevent the cork from drying out and having the seal become compromised as a result, not to minimize “wine surface area available” — have I had it all wrong?

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“Champagne is usually good for up to four years after it has been opened.”

And here we have been trying to get rid of it the same night we open it!

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That got me too. And then: “Proseccos that are served years after being bottled are usually flat.”

But at least those are safe! Could it be because the grapes are different?

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Pretty clearly a bad AI product that was not even read by whoever ordered it and released it. The newer large language/machine learning products from Open AI via CopyAI and other firms tend to be surprisingly excellent. I suspect they used a cheapo version using an earlier form (maybe GPT-2 or other), and it’s awful. Whoever did this likely shouldn’t still have a job. (Oops–I guess it’s just two guys doing their thing after their bar closed?)

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“I have had some aged sparkling wines that were more than a decade old and quite nice.”

Don’t act like your not impressed. Imagine the luxury. More than a decade?!?!

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In my hypothetical “Mythbusters Wine Lab,” it would be a fun thing to test the upright vs. on its side theory of wine storage. A case of wine, half stored on its side and half upright for a decade in otherwise the same conditions, open the 12 for a blind tasting of respected and experienced tasters and see if any of the upright ones have failed, have advanced earlier, or are otherwise different.

It would be fascinating to see it. My uninformed guess is that the test would not support the conventional wisdom about storing bottles on their sides, but who knows?