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That’s terrible especially as I’m sure you had some unique, old and expensive items in there.I am not so lucky in that all my wine is in Section B, including some (but not the majority) in a room right next to the room where the fire broke out. Worse I only have a nominal amount of insurance on the wine stored there.
We'll have to see how bad it is - it could take as long as three weeks to open Section B - and I've been warned that nothing may be recoverable. But the messages are not nuanced, as everyone in Section A got a very blunt message at the weekend.
After a few days of worry, and even wondering whether I should stop bothering with this wine thing full stop (I would probably be quite happy with a Eurocave of decent Champagne and a few reasonably priced table wines bought from wine shops as needed), I am now prepared for the worst, and still have quite a lot of wine in storage elsewhere (younger on the whole, but most of the very top old Madeiras too). I was also cheered up greatly by a wonderful meal with good friends last night. But sorry if I can't supply every old bottle promised for future offlines.
Where is section A and B?
if you go down lifts, turn right through the sliding doors there are a few banks of storage right in front. I had a unit straight ahead about 10 metres in. I pulled my stock and bought a third climadiff a little while back.
Do they know how fire started and if it was down in the wine section ? who would be storing anything that could cause an issue, or was it a building problem.
Sorry for all who have wines there, especially in the section with real issues.