CREATING OUR FIRST WINE CELLAR Tales from Ivy House, New Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire UK 1973

Back to Ivy House and the now established wine cellar, we had plenty of storage capacity and as the years went by we learned much more about wine and how to keep it.

Buy the late 1970's we were making annual trips to France ourselves and managed to bring back a variety of different wines to augment the cellar.

A calamity happened one winter when the water level in the basin rose so high it came up into the garden...and the cellar flooded to a depth of about 12 inches.

The wine was ok but those cardboard boxes of tinned food did not fair too well. 

The cardboard disintegrated and the tins were to be found floating around in varying condition of “distress”.

Many had begun to “blow”. 

When tins of food are kept too long and experience varying differences in storage conditions, they can begin to explode!

By now, what with the age of the tins and now finding them floating around the cellar, the labels had come off many of them too.

This was going to make identification somewhat difficult.

I telephoned my Mother who for the previous four years or so had not even mentioned her tins of food. She went ballistic....

Her “valuable” store of comestibles had been violated and I was the cause.

One would think I had destroyed the World food bank to hear the racket down the telephone line.

When she had finished ranting, I told here they were unsafe and were going to be binned at the earliest possible moment.

I was “sent to Coventry” for another period of several months, which suited me fine!

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