My new best cellar
My new best cellar
Dig deep for the wine-lover in your life, says Jonathan Ray
I know what I want for Christmas and it ain’t socks or handkerchiefs, thanks very much. I want a cellar. A grown-up, temperature-controlled, computer-catalogued cellar with lots of racks and bins for bottles, shelves for books, benches for decanting. I want the whole shebang. I’m fed up with cracking my head every time I go to the Cupboard of Cobwebs under the stairs in search of a special bottle.
In my line of work I’m lucky enough to get sent a lot of wine — at a rough count there are now 300 bottles encircling me in my study — and I buy a bit too. The trouble is there’s nowhere to put it all. The cupboard is groaningly full and I need to drink as fast as I can just to keep a path clear from my desk to the door. Heaven knows what Elfin Safety would say.
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