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You would like to experiment with wines.
You would like to have a wine cellar from which to choose appropriate wines. How can you do this? There is the telephone and heat to pay for, among other things, and you’ve spotted that cute pair of shoes.
Drink in Moderation
One recommendation is to drink in moderation. Drinking wines in moderation, with food, is good for your health. One to three glasses of wine a day for ladies, two to four for men is now recommended by health professionals in providing a buffer against diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and symptoms of menopause.
Binge drinking on the other hand is not recommended. Nor can you ‘save up’ your wine allotments and imbibe it all on Friday night.
Plan Ahead
Another recommendation is to plan ahead. If you can defer enjoyment, postpone some pleasure, you can make wine at a UVin/UBrew for less than half the cost of buying at a liquor store. How is this possible? You start the process by choosing a wine you’d like, paying for it, ($150 - $200) and ‘pitching the yeast’. The employees at the wine-making shop do all the work. (And there really is quite a lot of work, caring for the fermenting products, cleaning up after them, readying them for you. You return in a few weeks and bottle the product. Voila! Thirty bottles of wonderful wine, at a cost of $5 - $7 a bottle. Some of these wines are ready to drink almost immediately, others will be much better with a few months of aging in a cool place.
Join a Wine Exchange
‘Wow! Great prices, but maybe I don’t want 30 bottles of the same wine,’ you say. ‘Any suggestions?’ Yes. Join with friends, family, or other wine makers in a wine exchange. Then you might go home with six bottles each of five different products, and have fun in the process. Gradually you can acquire a variety of wines and soon you’ll be showing off your wine cellar. And you’ll have saved enough money to buy those shoes!
