All these ideas should help get your friends drinking more wine. I hope I interpreted your question correctly...

Q: I am Interested in starting up a vintage wine collection, can you please advise me of your recommended way of keeping the wine. Especially how often I should rotate the wine while in storage or can it be continuously rotated.

A: Well a temperature controlled wine cellar that stays about 60 degrees, no light, no vibration and a bit of humidity, but not to much, would be ideal conditions for wine storage. If a cellar is an attribute your house provides then wine racks down there is a nice solution. Our east coast cellars seem to stay at a nice cool temp in the summer and don't get to cold during winter, so we have it kinda easy. My time on the west coast however proved that cellars are fewer and far between out there. So specific temperature controlled units are more of a necessity.Check out these sites for an idea on wine storage units,
www.wineenthusiast.com

  You may find some units that interest you and fulfill the requirements of good wine storage: temp control, little vibration, low to no light and a touch of humidity.

  Here is some general info on wine storage that will save me about a thousand keystrokes on this keyboard.

  Now as far as rotation goes, it's up to you. As you start to accumulate wine, there will be certain wines you want to age for 15 years and other you may just want to let sit for 5, it depends on what wines you are plunking down in the cellar. When you rotate, you drink. As you get up into the 100's of bottles there should always be something that you can be drinking to see how it is ageing. Even if you think the wine needs some more time, you have to start tasting it eventually. Check out my article regarding this at
Q: I received a bottle of Dom Perignon 1985, this year my husband and I will be married 25 years I saved theDom for our 25th anniv. and now someone told me that the Dom is no longer good. Please tell me I didn't blow it...

A: You didn't blow it.

  That "someone" who told you that, may find themselves in a fine dining restaurant some day and notice the numerous vintage premiere Champagnes on the list that are pre-1980's and tell the other diners in the party, "those bottles are no good", and that "someone" will be wrong.

  Top of the line vintage Champagne (like Dom) have a nice shelf life, if stored properly. There are still vintages from the 60's rolling around out there somewhere, and connoisseurs are still drinking them, they taste different from the new releases, but that's the intention.

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