Comments on: more stormhoek blog reviews

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:25:53 +0000

The Ultimate Fresheness thingamabob will be on the bottle in Sainsbury’s. Y’all got a more bespoke packaging, just for the promotion etc.
Also in Thresher’s and Oddbins, but not Tesco’s, funnily enough.
The wine you received is very new 2005 stuff, so as long as you drink it within 2 years, you should be fine.

By: James Cherkoff

James Cherkoff — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:47:02 +0000

I enjoyed the wine, but couldn’t find the Ultimte Freshness Date which sounds like a good idea. Like most people I know very little about wine (apart from that all Rioja is delicious and I drink small vats of its without a problem) and find the supermarket shelves pretty daunting. So having been introduced to Stormhoek and enjoyed it, it’s pretty likely I’ll at least have a look at it next time I am in Sainsbury’s — is it in there?

By: Nick Browne

Nick Browne — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:37:40 +0000

My personalised bottle of Stormhoek arrived yesterday. I got bottle 73 of 75 so it may have been a close run thing. I hope to start (and to be frank, finish) drinking it tonight.
Gracias

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:09:53 +0000

Yeah, but what about the story of the popping cork?
What is there to replace that with?
(Sorry, I thought I was channeling Seth Godin there for a second… )

By: Markus Pirchner

Markus Pirchner — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:26:15 +0000

The only thing we’re going to loose is the ceremonial act of uncorking a bottle at the restaurant table and the chance to pretend to be a real connoisseur.
This seems to be a real problem for restaurant owners, at least for the moment. Only, if you are faced with 10% of the bottles in your cellar being damaged by bad cork you’d be more than willing to switch to screwtops immediately.
There is no factual reason at all that would speak against screwtops. Though I wouldn’t agree that screwtops keep the wine “a LOT fresher”, they do slow down a bit the maturation process of wine in the bottle; screwtops don’t show any disadvantage in terms of storing and long-evity etc. etc. provided that they are processed with the necessary accuracy.
Thorough examinations and analyses for more than a decade in Australia (and other wine-growing countries) have shown that screwtops are at least as good as high-quality cork.
I guess, we’ll get used to bottles being “unscrewed”, not uncorked in the restaurant.