here in usa, wine by the glass places have very fancy equipment to keep the 60 or 90 different bottles they have open fresh. too bad it does not work. if one strays from a generic merlot, or chard, the wine is usually very tired.

i have not found that to be the case in france or italy. no fancy equipment, and less than a dozen bottles open. sometimes only 3 or 4. when one bottle dies, another of different flavor is open. in most, one can even choose what will be opened next.