Signs you are ultra-rich, according to Razor Ramon HG:
1. You ask about wine coolers on Revscene
2. Asking for recommendations without setting a budget

Carry on.

Reminds me of a LA based boss of mine who had 600 bottles in his cellar and at our first dinner together we're talking wines and he says that he felt that the sweet spot for a bottle was $100USD. I'm like a $15-25 CAD kind of guy so I'm way out of my league here.

He had a ranch in Montana and had worked several C-suite jobs at multi-billion dollar companies so spending $100 on a bottle of wine on a weeknight was just a regular day for him.

If a wine tastes good and is also cheap, that's an excellent wine IMO. My dad is the same lol. Sure, once in awhile it's nice to splurge on a more expensive wine but are they worth the price? In my (limited) experience no, not always. Plenty of sommeliers have been exposed when doing blind taste tests as being absolutely full of shit :lol

Unnecessary flaunting again
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Not flaunting. I was just referring that even for a person with great wine collection (hundreds if not thousands of bottles) and being very dedicated on the topic (he and my aunt drink on a daily basis), it's just a random room with drywalls in the basement. No fancy cooler/cellar or anything like that.

Quite frank though, I'm not a sommelier or anything like that. I do like wine from time to time. But not all wines are meant to be aged.

My "wine of house" is a $18-25 (depending on year) bonarda from Argentina that I enjoy every time I have steak. I have been buying it for a while and just the other day, I found a box that I got 5yrs ago. It was a good year because that's the one that got me buying. I opened one and I can't say that I liked it all that much. So much so that after confirming that the second bottle was also crappy, I ended up using the rest for cooking. That extra 5yrs of aging did not make it better in any way.

So, back to the request for wine cooler, I think it makes sense to keep whites chilled so it's always ready to go. But if storage is the goal, just a basement/crawl space room is fine.

https://rosehillwinecellars.com/coll...-wine-cabinets

Looking at one of these.

Jk, lol.

There's a Black Friday special on an Insignia branded one for $249.99 that seems to have good reviews. Just found out it has a compressor. Thought I had to step up to one of the $500 ones from Costco.

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product...t-buy/15998184

Right now we store the whites/reds in a closet. We take the whites out to chill over the course of a few hours in the fridge. Reds we just pop it right open.

Been wanting a more "appropriate" method of storing wine for a while. I think if the Insignia one works out, we could just get a second one specifically for reds?

Don't know if I'm overthinking it. It's just a fridge after all, right? Lol.

It really depends on whether or not you drink enough to justify the investment.

You aren’t really storing it properly. But yet again, if you will drink them rather quickly like within 6mth or so, it wouldn’t make a huge difference.

But often we buy things for convenience. If you feel that it’d be nice to always just have whites whenever and not having to chill it beforehand, then yeah. It makes sense. It’s not super expensive anyway. But do remember it’s got a compressor. It’s not something you’d want in your room.

One pro I do find with having a wine cooler is this:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3d5e8115_b.jpg

This is the cooler I have in the kitchen.

By keeping everything at 7-10°c, whites are always ready to go.

And here comes the good part, I also store drinks that I don't want them to be ice cold as well as fruits and cold cuts. Drink is self-explained. Beers you want to be cold, but not things like bubbly water. Fruit and cold cuts, otoh benefit greatly with the relatively higher temp and high humidity.

So things like apple and orange wouldn't be so cold that's hurts my sensitive teeth and they stay nicer looking/fresh for longer comparing to storing them in fridge.

Vision can absolutely be better than 20/20. In fact, young adults with healthy eye sight -- ie. someone in their late teens to mid 20's? -- should really be able to resolve down to 20/15, meaning you can see at 20 feet what an average person can see at 15 feet.

In theory, optometrists should be able to help adults in their prime to correct their vision acuity back to 20/15. But people -- both the patients and optometrists -- don't tend to bother going the distance to do that.

As we get older, it is also important to note that optometrists aren't just there to help you get your eyeglasses prescription. They are also eye health professionals to help monitor your eye health. Personally, I think retinal examination is important because it can check for retinal detachment, signs of glaucoma and macular degeneration. Additionally, diabetics should definitely ask for a pupil dilation and retinal exam because diabetes can diabetic retinopathy.

That's kind of what everyone I know who has a wine cooler ends up doing. All the junk goes in it. It ended up being more of a random drinks fridge than a wine cooler.

I've read that aging in bottles doesn't mean shit, it's just a way for them to gouge the shit out of you for a 1970s or 1980s bottle of wine. Once it goes in the bottle it doesn't do anything. Just fucking drink it.

I personally like wines in the $20 dollar range, I'm not a snob when it comes to wine and as long as it tastes good, fuck it. Under $10 is where it gets a little sus. There are a list of colours/dyes and aromas that are allowed to be put in wine to "make it look and taste like wine" and the really cheap stuff that's not single or two grapes are no in my books. Some even single or two grape wines are suspect honestly. Then also there's the single grapes which doesn't taste like what the bottle says. A syrah that doesn't taste like a syrah, yeah not ever touching that shit again.

Speaking of special glasses, I recently tried out some Avulux migraine glasses, and I was both surprised and impressed by how well they work. As the name suggests, they are glasses that have been clinically proven to mitigate the effects of migraine, and are certified by Health Canada as a medical device to help relieve migraines.

For me, these Avulux glasses don't necessarily prevent migraine since my migraines typically aren't triggered by light (although some people do). They also don't necessarily get rid of the migraine when it occurs. However, for me, these glasses definitely dial down the severity of the migraine by a couple of notches, and that alone is already HUGE because it could mean the difference between me being able to continue functioning in some discomfort, versus having a migraine so debilitating that I need to go lay down in a quiet, dark room. Essentially, I'd say they shift the severity of my migraine to the easier side by some amount, and that is already a God-send.

If you or any of your close family and friends suffer from migraine, I'd strongly encourage you to ask them to look into this.

tnx dudes. this is depressing.

Wait till you get reading glasses. I'm on my second pair and within months I can see that I'm going to need to get my prescription checked again. I can't read anything close to me with my glasses on anymore while I also can't hold my phone too far away without my glasses on.

:suspicious:

I have the reverse, all summer no headaches, but when it gets dark in fall / winter and i aint wearing glasses its like it strains my eyes > causes minor headache > goes away in spring

I've heard of SAD (seasonal affective disorder), but this obviously sounds like something different.

I know one of my migraine triggers is when I focus too hard and too long when I work on the computer. Over time, I eventually came to the conclusion that it probably has to do with me consciously or subconsciously tightening my eyebrows and forehead when I hyperfocus and "get into the zone", and the continous muscle tension somehow mess things up. I wonder if your situation might share some similarities where the dimmer seasons and environment are causing you to subconsciously forcing your eyes to work harder, and/or your eyebrows / forehead to tighten up to cause this minor headache.

So maybe you can try turning up the lights, and make sure you give your eyes a break every so often and see whether that helps?

It's a shame that this forum is Canucks/NHL-biased.

I've been following the team since 2011. They're playing the best brand of football they have every played since 2011 and they're a team that has a great spirit about them. It's hard not to root for them.

I attended the LAFC game with my wife. It was the best sporting event at BC Place in many years and even my wife, who's not a big football fan, had a great time.

Thomas Muller has been the best professional athlete signing of any major Vancouver sports team in decades. He has truly embraced the city and being part of the team.

Copa90 did a great feature on the history of the Whitecaps and their impact on the city. Definitely worth a watch for anyone who calls Vancouver home, even if you're not a soccer fan: https://youtu.be/A6Hnk37Lwo8?si=9f07FwYXqgv89JT1

wtf.. how old are you, aren't you in your 30s.. FML I'm walking down the paths right now. Let's see how many more years I got until i need tri focals. (i'm 45 next week).

Bi- and tri-focals are yesteryear's news. These days you want to get progressive lenses.

For the life of me, I can't get used to them. I tried, but I just find it weird AF to be forcing myself to have my eyes look down and only use the bottom region of the progressive lens for reading close up stuff. And when I don't force myself to use the proper viewing zones in the lens, my eyes get tired really quickly and that might trigger my migraine. FailFish

But that is just me. I know plenty of other people who have zero issues with progressive lenses after a brief adjustment period.

Looks like they will have viewing party at BC Place this Saturday. For playoffs, they were only $10! Wonder what the price for the finals this Sat will be.

Everything up close is blurry, so I have to hold my phone away from me to see it.

Except then the text gets too small and I still can't see it :okay:

Two options:
1) Glasses: hell nah. I need to Revscene in bed with the lights off and blanket over my head. That ain't gonna work.
2) Get a new phone. Have an iPhone 13 Mini; maybe time to get something bigger.

It really depends how you plan on using it.

Are you looking for more a spot to cellar wines for 3 - 10 years while they age?

Or is it just a place to keep wines in their own designated spot where they are ready to drink when you want?

we have one of these basic koolatron ones. the only difference with ours is 2 bottles per row (not 3) so it's a bit taller and skinnier.

https://www.costco.ca/koolatron-14-i...100657249.html

We use it for both purposes. About half of it is used for rarer wines that we are keeping longer term before we drink them (3-5 years on avg) and the other half are ready to drink when we want.

I like costco wine coolers beccause of their return policy.

I recommend dual temp if you plan on using it for ready-to-drink bottles. If you're cellaring wines, then single temp is ok.

If your house tends to get too warm in the summer, and you are keeping wines long term, a cooler is a good investment to keep the wines from getting too warm and spoiling.

Here's my best advice: is if you have a few wines in mind, take those empty bottles to the store and test to make sure they fit in the cooler wihtout issues. Standard sized bottles are typically fine but not always. For example, one of our favourite australian wines uses these super heavy fatter bottles (like champagne bottles almost). They just barely fit, but it scrapes the labels when we jam them in there.

I'm turning 50 in about 50 days. I think I got my first progressives 4 years ago (and had needed them for a while) - they really fuck with you head that first time as your brain has a really hard time adjusting to them at first.

The shitty part for me (and probably a lot of you in my situation) is that every time I get new ones I have to replace my progressive sunglasses too even though the prescription change is tiny so I'm almost always out of pocket for 1 set of glasses since my wife's coverage only goes to $300 every 2 years.

With your sunglasses, would you say you'd need to look at / read stuff up close while you are wearing your sunglasses?

I mostly only use my sunglass when I'm driving and when I'm outdoors. And usually when I'm outdoors, I don't really need to read / look at stuff that is up close.

So unless you have a need to look at stuff that is close by while you are outdoors (and thus requiring sunglasses), you can probably get by with just getting the regular single vision lenses for you sunglasses to look at stuff at a distance, and that will be waaaay cheaper than getting progressives.

Switching glasses and prescriptions back and forth fucks your head up so much though. Even identical prescriptions, switching from glasses to glasses that are different shapes require eye adjustments. If you were swapping from progressives to non progressive sunglasses I bet you’d get some wicked headaches.

I’m in the denial stage, have reading glasses but never wear them and if I look at my phone for too long everything distance is blurry but I’m like “I can still see the colour of lights and shapes of cars and people! Good ruck everybody!” Vroooooom