I am not a wine connoisseur by any stretch. I like a glass now and again, and I've really developed a taste for Gewurztraminer German white wine.
This post is to ask about wine's tolerance for being poorly stored. This winter we had a large number of my wife's employees over for a Christmastime dinner party. I bought about a dozen bottles of various kinds of wine just so we'd be covered, and it turned out there were only a couple wine drinkers in the group, so we had about 8 bottles left over.
I put them in the garage for chilling during the party, and afterward, I moved them off to the side and forgot about them until I came across them yesterday. So they were exposed to the extreme cold for a couple months, and then the extreme heat - talking 90s and 100s.
Is there any point in trying to keep or salvage these bottles of wine? I almost chucked them in the trash this AM, but then I thought maybe I'd ask if anyone knows. It's not expensive wine, but between the 8 bottles I probably have between $100 and $150 into them, so IF they can be saved, I'd rather save them.