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At what temperature should the red wine be served at Lents dinner?

Just below boiling point		12%

Body temperature		4%

Room temperature		31%

Fridge temperature		15%

Frozen		38%

Total: 26 members' votes

by Confused - Sun 5th Mar 2006, 10:27pm

I don't get it... Surely the dinner has been and gone? Or is this just very early preparation for next year?

by jpd - Mon 6th Mar 2006, 9:38am

Confused said: I don't get it... Surely the dinner has been and gone? Or is this just very early preparation for next year?

Shhh - if you keep quiet, no one will notice...

by pedant - Mon 6th Mar 2006, 3:52pm

does it not depend on how cold your fridge, room and body are?

by pedantic medic #2 - Mon 6th Mar 2006, 3:56pm

pedant said: does it not depend on how cold your fridge, room and body are?

Or indeed up at what altitude you are (Boathouse, Old Kitchens and Cloisters are all slightly different)?

by pedantic chemical engineer - Mon 6th Mar 2006, 4:06pm

pedantic medic #2 said: Or indeed up at what altitude you are

Just below the boiling point of what? And "Frozen" is not a temperature...

by gf - Mon 6th Mar 2006, 4:10pm

pedantic chemical engineer said: Just below the boiling point of what? And "Frozen" is not a temperature...

And presumably William Perry gets hotter when he exercises...

by jpd - Mon 6th Mar 2006, 4:32pm

pedant said: does it not depend on how cold your fridge, room and body are?

Google defines room temperature to be "the temperature at which red wine is served", which makes "room temperature" about 3°C in our house.

by Simon - Mon 6th Mar 2006, 5:04pm

pedantic chemical engineer said: Just below the boiling point of what?

Of the wine. I assume that this will vary from vintage to vintage but I guess it's the sort of thing Jon Bevan knows - give him a temperature and he'll tell you which wines will boil at that point...

by The Faculty of Irrelevant Studies - Mon 6th Mar 2006, 5:06pm

Meanwhile, the Oxford English Dictionary defines room temperature as "the temperature of a, or the, room, esp. that which is comfortable for occupants". Though since adequately served red wine is clearly integral to the comfort of all discerning room-occupants, this definition is almost as unhelpful as the previous one.

by even more pedantic - Mon 6th Mar 2006, 5:21pm

Simon said: Of the wine.

Of course, being (essentially) a mixture of ethanol and water, wine does not have a unique boiling point like a pure substance does. I will assume you mean just below the bubble point of the wine.