Wine: Why these are my seven favorite wines

[Mike Buckley]

These are my seven favorite wines because they are the only open wine bottles in my home.

Considering that it is just my wife and me living in our home, a lot of people would wonder how two people could have seven open bottles and would wonder how many of them will go bad. It is a myth that wine goes bad soon. We often drink the second half of a bottle of wine a week or longer after it is initially opened. None of these wines will go bad.

The image has an incongruity that is humorous to me and I wonder if anyone notices it.

[chauncey]

When I was younger, I considered myself a connoisseur of white German wine. Most of all, I did crave the Auslese variety , but...never was there a half empty bottle in my home.

[Mike Buckley]

never was there a half empty bottle in my home.

I'm sure you're referring to the fact that you're an optimist, in which case all those bottles were half full.

[Bobobird]

Let's not talk of wine but the pic. Very nice, better than most "professionals".

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you, Bobo!

[wlou]

These are my seven favorite wines because they are the only open wine bottles in my home.

Considering that it is just my wife and me living in our home, a lot of people would wonder how two people could have seven open bottles and would wonder how many of them will go bad. It is a myth that wine goes bad soon. We often drink the second half of a bottle of wine a week or longer after it is initially opened. None of these wines will go bad.

The image has an incongruity that is humorous to me and I wonder if anyone notices it.

Good picture Mike. The second bottle from the left looks strange, no reflection in the glass? In fact, all the reflexions looks different.

[Brownbear]

There is a reflection of something different in the bottle on the far right hand side, a cd player or something like that?

Beautiful warm colours. I especially like the colours on the three bottles on the left hand side... ie; old world art.

[rpcrowe]

Mike,

I thought of you today as I passed a wine shop with a sign that read, "Honor the brave grapes for they gave their lives so you can drink!"

[pnodrog]

Nearly all of my preferred wines now come with screw caps - not nearly as photogenic. I know I am being an utter pleb but the convenience of replacing the cap on a half full bottle and saving it for the next day is great. However as a very moderate drinker I do shudder at the thought of having seven bottles on the go.

[rpcrowe]

My wife likes screw top beer cans so she can drink half one day and finish the next day

[Loose Canon]

And speaking of screw tops?

The green screw top bottle has a cork in it! And the cork doesn't have threads!

Nice shot Mike!

I like the green in the similar patterned, similar colored composition. Always a good compositional element.

Good eye!

[flashback]

I'm guessing it's the green bottle with the screw cap threads and a cork in it?

[NorthernFocus]

Oh, great. So I've no excuse for drinking the whole bottle in one evening? Hope my wife doesn't see this post...

I see two or three things. The second bottle from left has totally different light pattern, the previously mentioned cork in screw top bottle, and the second from right is the only one with the label visible.

[TonyW]

I'm guessing it's the green bottle with the screw cap threads and a cork in it?

I picked that too. Australian wine is almost always in a screw top bottle and it's not all because we drink too much cheap wine.

Another thing I don't understand is the shape of the shadow inside the green bottle.

[NorthernFocus]

I picked that too. Australian wine is almost always in a screw top bottle and it's not all because we drink too much cheap wine..

Then again it doesn't necessarily exclude that possibility

When we visited NZ a few years ago, I fell in love with Marlborough Sound Sauv Blanc. Returning home I found my favorite that is available here, Monkey Bay, with a screw top. Then for a couple of years they switched to corks. Natural cork too, not the foam ones. I assume they did so for the US market stereotype that screw tops are for cheap wines. It was TERRIBLE. The corks were so loose that they would spin when you tried to insert the corkscrew. Thank goodness they finally reverted to the screw tops.

Screw top vs cork is yet another example of the natural propensity of people to resist change. And of the industry leaders to use something like that as a barrier to entry by arguing the virtues of the way it's always been done. There is no scientific basis for corks improving the quality of the wine. Is there a parallel with DSLR vs mirrorless cameras?

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you, everyone! However, Bobo is probably getting mad at us for spending so much time discussing wine. He'll eventually get over it.

Several of you saw the incongruity of the cork in the screw top bottle. That's actually how we're storing that wine and I saw no need to change it just for the photo. Just the opposite, I have such a warped sense of humor that I think it's a nice touch. On the other hand, I'm not proud that I didn't notice that until I set up the photo. Yikes!

Louise: The various direct reflections in the bottles are different because each bottle has a different shape and is positioned in a different place relative to the single light source and the other bottles. That's the nature of transparent and translucent glass. Fortunately, I like that characteristic.

Christina: The photo was shot with a black ceiling, floor and walls. The only reflections in the image are produced by the light source and the other bottles. Depending on what you saw in the far right bottle, the "CD player" is either the refracted light of the bottle behind it, the top surface of the wine in the bottle or the embossed glass on the front of the bottle.

For the record, I wish all wine bottles had screw top closures. The five Bordeaux Grand Cru Premier Growth wines will surely be the last to get them and I don't expect that to happen in my lifetime even if I live another 50 years, which my wife prays every day won't happen.

[Donald]

For the record, I wish all wine bottles had screw top closures. The five Bordeaux Grand Cru Premier Growth wines will surely be the last to get them and I don't expect that to happen in my lifetime even if I live another 50 years, which my wife prays every day won't happen.

Can't see the big boys in Burgundy going to screwcap any time soon, although it is believed that a number of them are experimenting by putting some of their wines under screwcap closures and hiding them away for a few years to then do compare & contrast tests.

[Mike Buckley]

I hadn't heard that, Donald. Very interesting! Even so, I would be willing to bet that the final decision will have far more to do with marketing and tradition rather than quality of the wine.

[Kaye Leggett]

Another great photo Mike

[Brownbear]

It seems that I see too many things in your images but it still looks like a CD player to me. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you, everyone! However, Bobo is probably getting mad at us for spending so much time discussing wine. He'll eventually get over it.

Several of you saw the incongruity of the cork in the screw top bottle. That's actually how we're storing that wine and I saw no need to change it just for the photo. Just the opposite, I have such a warped sense of humor that I think it's a nice touch. On the other hand, I'm not proud that I didn't notice that until I set up the photo. Yikes!

Louise: The various direct reflections in the bottles are different because each bottle has a different shape and is positioned in a different place relative to the single light source and the other bottles. That's the nature of transparent and translucent glass. Fortunately, I like that characteristic.

Christina: The photo was shot with a black ceiling, floor and walls. The only reflections in the image are produced by the light source and the other bottles. Depending on what you saw in the far right bottle, the "CD player" is either the refracted light of the bottle behind it, the top surface of the wine in the bottle or the embossed glass on the front of the bottle.

For the record, I wish all wine bottles had screw top closures. The five Bordeaux Grand Cru Premier Growth wines will surely be the last to get them and I don't expect that to happen in my lifetime even if I live another 50 years, which my wife prays every day won't happen.