How To Drink Wine Whilst Out At Sea
The beautiful thing about wine is that it can be enjoyed almost anywhere. In your back garden, on a meadow, or maybe at work if you’re lucky. You may even like to have a glass or two whilst going for a sail, in which case you should pay close attention as the information here may prove very useful to you indeed.
Keeping it chilled. If you are drinking red wine then you don’t really have to worry about temperature, just keep it below deck and it will be fine. The same cannot be said for white wine however, or indeed champagne which is at its best when it has been chilled…something not easy to achieve on a boat with no fridge. A great tip however is to use nature’s chiller and stick the bottles in the sea. Just place them in a secure net and dunk them in the water 30 minutes before you want to drink them.This doesn’t work so well if you are in the Mediterranean, but most places will still give your wine a nice chill.
Stopping it breaking. Boats tend to move about a bit when they are out at sea and bottles can become easily broken. If they are packed up well and not allowed to move around then they should be ok, but there is another precaution you can take. If you place your wines in wine bags they act to protect them further and stop any liquid escaping if the bottles do break.
Getting the bottle open. It is obviously tradition to break a bottle over a new ship when naming it, but what if you actually fancy drinking it. Try not to get the cork wet as it can swell and this can make it harder to remove. Also, don’t try to remove the cork by improvising with all manner of tableware or fishing hooks. Use a decent bottle opener and take your time. If you end up corking it then you might be a quite a way from another bottle.