I’m a disappointed oenophile this evening.

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This afternoon, as I was readying myself to prepare dinner, I bethought to myself to open a bottle of wine so that once the dinner is in the oven my wife and I could share an aperitif as we waited. Tonight I’m proposing chicken tagline with couscous. Over the summer I’ve been storing my collection of reds from Lebanon, Georgia, Italy and Argentina in the garage where to air is cool. However summer has passed and the cool, even cold airs of autumn are upon us so the wine is now at a lower than appropriate temperature. So I’m going to have to chambré the wine in the kitchen and I don’t think it will be ready for an aperitif. The temperature in the garage is 6 degrees C - too cold for a big red. Tonight’s wine is a primitive from Puglia,