Bought Wines from Angra's Warehouse Sale

I'm not a big buyer of wines since I don't drink enough at home. (The man's first choice of alcohol isn't wine. It's beer.) Wine goes slowly. I finish maybe a bottle a month. We don't have that many friends over for wine either. If I want to, it's convenient enough to hop out to get a decent/desired bottle of wine if we're having friends over. 

The last time I bought 12 bottles of wine at a go was in November. It has taken me half a year to whittle it down to a bottle of Beaujolais. People do send gifts of wines. I'm lucky that they don't send cartons! But they still gift a bottle or two. That's very lovely though. Importantly, there isn't a reason for me to stock wines at home because of space constraints. I don't own a wine fridge. It isn't a necessity. If I have the extra space, it's a second fridge or a small freezer that would be helpful.  

Anyway, it was time to restock my meagre supply of wines. When the friends sent the information over about Angra's warehouse sale over the weekend, I signed up for it. I like it that we could simply buy loose bottles here and there instead of dealing with six of the same bottles or a dozen of them. I don't have that many favorites to want to drink the same labels over and over and over again. 

It was a blistering hot day. Thank goodness the warehouse was air-conditioned. We had booked our preferred timed slots (one allocated hour); and the queue to enter was short and fast-moving. It was a full-on sale. People brought their trolleys and even boxes. I didn't. I figured that Angra would have sufficient sturdy cartons for shoppers. Between the man and I, a few bottles of wine wouldn't be that heavy to carry down to the car.

The stock list indicated that there were plenty of reasonably priced wines for us to choose from. I didn't want anything fussy, requiring exact storage temperatures or too vintage. I wanted a few easy bottles of Barolo, Sangiovese, Chianti and Chablis, a few bottles of Chablis and sauvignon blanc for the BFF, and that was that. Went to the ale with the intention to buy eight bottles of wine, and left with ten. Not too bad. Well, 12 bottles of wine are all the space I have at home. These must be finished within seven months, given the limited storage conditions. Three bottle of wines will sit in the food fridge at any one time; the rest lie quietly in a dark corner in the music room (the coolest and darkest room) till needed.