Wines taste best served at the right temperature. From 7?C for non vintage sparkling to 18?C for vintage port. Different types of wines need to be served at different temperatures. Wine coolers serve the purpose of chilling your wine to the right temperature.

A wine cooler is any type of utensil or equipment used to cool the wine. These may be small table top units that rapidly cool a single bottle or hand held totes used to carry chilled wine. Wine coolers may also be as elaborate as large refrigerator style units that store dozens of bottles at selected temperatures. Wine coolers are usually made of neoprene, vinyl or double-walled glass, plastic, metal or any insulated material that assists to keep the wine chilled.

Table top units are useful for obtaining the correct wine serving temperature especially in warmer climates. Hand held totes are used for carrying and keeping bottles cold for picnics or parties but these keep wine chilled for a limited amount of time ranging from 1 to 3 hours. These hold single bottles or as many as three bottles of wine.

The large refrigerated units come in different types, sizes, styles and functions. These types of wine coolers are useful for those who do not have access to a wine cellar, as temperature and humidity conditions can be replicated. These can maintain temperatures at a designated level and also at precise levels so wines are continually kept chilled to the desired degree. With developments in technology, wine coolers have also come of age. Modern day wine coolers do not only control temperature, cooling and circulation but are also able to read bar coding of wine bottles enabling precise controls of elements related to the coding. Some wine coolers also have separate chambers with separate temperature controls so that different types of wines can be stored in the same wine cooler.

While choosing a wine cooler, features like volume, number of shelves, capacity, dimensions and energy efficiency are to be kept in mind. Coolers with extra features like light, glass doors and the opening of the door to both left and right are added advantages. Digital or electronic controls gain over dial controls, as temperatures can be set precisely.

Various brands are available with different functionalities with prices ranging from $350 to over $2000. Table top coolers are useful for domestic purposes while the large refrigerated units are ideally suited to bars, restaurants or uses where high turnover of products is expected.

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In 1982 country music fans must have been in a state of orgasmic bliss when this album was released - Jones and Haggard together, finally! If Hank and Lefty are playing cards together and knocking back a few pints in honky tonk Heaven, chances are this duet album is playing constantly on the jukebox. It simply doesn't get any better than this.



Finding themselves on the same record label after decades of chart topping hits, Merle and George, along with legendary producer Billy Sherrill, effortlessly delve into the highs and lows of hard livin' in general. A running theme throughout the album is the difficulty of dealing with the pressures of being country legends in a business where loneliness lurks at every stop. And, of course, there's the booze, which is celebrated and demonized at the same time.



As you might expect from these two, the singing is jaw-droppingly flawless. The album opens, fittingly enough, with Willie Nelson's "Yesterday's Wine," song about two old friends meeting in a bar. "I Think I've Found A Way, written by Merle, is probably the album's best track, and after Hag sings "I think I've found a way" and George chimes in with the line "to live without you" Jones' soulful voice will make your hair stand on-end (In fact, George's singing on the second verse is some of the most dazzling vocals he has sung in his career). They sing a couple of tributes to each other as well, with "Silver Eagle," a song written about Merle and remains the only song, to my knowledge, where Jones talks about smoking dope. "No Show Jones," co-written by George, is a sarcastic reference to Jones' inability to make the shows he was booked for at the time and many in which he was not (When this album was recorded, George was in the depths of his "bad days," with a dayly routine that would make most rock stars blush). These two songs, along with "After I Sing All My Songs," addresses the theme of the "lost highway" that country singers must endure on the road. "I Haven't Found Her Yet," written by Merle with George's drinking buddy Johnny Paycheck, also speaks of trying to find love in a world of fleeting honky tonk angels.



The rest is icing on the cake. There is the sad regret of "The Brothers" and "Mobile Bay" and the hilarious "Must've Been Drunk" and the hit "C.C. Waterback (Half the album's songs mention drinking - what did you expect?). Sherrill's production is thankfully restrained, as if he knew he needn't do too much to make this record a classic. This album is without pretension completely - even the cover photo looks like it was taken as an after-thought before the boys hit the local tavern after finishing recording. Along with the death of Hank Williams and the moment Waylon met Willie in some bar in Nashville, this album goes down as one of the most significant events in the history of country music. A classic of classics.





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i loved this CD. every song, with the exception of "I Haven't Found Her Yet", are great. the reason i didn't like the song i just mentioned as much is because it's a sing-a-long type of song and i don't like George doing that kind of song unless it's a gospel song. the hits were "Yesterday's Wine", which hit #1 in 1982 and "C.C. Waterback", which reached #10 in early 1983. i love "Silver Eagle" and "After I Sing All My Songs". "No Show Jones" makes it's debut on this album. "I Think I've Found a Way to Live Without You" is another great ballad. "Must've Been Drunk" is hilarious, especially George's shouting part during the chorus: "we must've been drunk when we said we'd stop drinkin' a double shot over the line. Hag, we must've been drunk, lord, what was we thinkin? we must have been out of our minds!". the killer lyric on "I Think I've Found a Way to Live Without You" comes from George: "i know everybody wonders why drinking hasn't killed me and i myself at times have wondered why...". "The Brothers" and "Mobile Bay" are other great ballads. if "I Haven't Found Her Yet" wasn't included on here, it would be a masterpiece. the only song that some might want to fast-forward is "I Haven't Found Her Yet"...but the song may be a favorite to someone else so listen to it first. i actually like the instrumentation but i don't like the lyrics that much.
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