Wine Racks and Wine Storage
Whether you have a wine collection of 1 bottle, or a collection of a 1000 bottles (or more), you want your collection to be well preserved and well presented. And to do this you will want a wine rack or a wine storage solution.
Take a look through our article section, and you will get an idea of the many possible ways in which this wine storage problem can be solved. Or take a look in the video section for even more ideas.
And finally, you may like to take a look at our 150+ wine rack selection, or you can even use our product finder to track down you own particular type of wine storage idea.
Simple Guides on Choosing The Right Rack for Your Wines
When you hear the word “wine”, most probably the thing that pops-up to your mind is “celebration”. Most, if not all, are using wines as symbols of merrymaking and festivities; most celebrations, gatherings and special occasions include wine.
When a friend visits you at your place, wine will be poured; when your children got awards and honors at school, the elders drink wine to celebrate; and when you’re promoted, surely, there’s wine. There are even households that include wine in their meals. Indeed, wine has become part of some peoples lives over the years that they even make collecting wines as hobby.
The Proper Care and Storage for Wine
The consumption and collection of wine has been growing over the last few years. While more and more money has been going into wine as investment or for future consumption, questions about the wine’s history are asked. So the question often arises when it comes time to understand the provenance of a wine: How has this wine been stored?
This question is important, as it can mean the difference between euphoria and depression in the wine drinker. The glory of opening a beautiful bottle of perfectly stored wine, or the agony and letdown of opening poorly stored wine. That poorly stored wine that upon opening is nothing more than vinegar.
What to Look for in a Wine Rack
Wine racks can be utilitarian or decorative, but they are designed to hold bottles of wine to free up space; some are for storage, while others are for displaying wine.
Wine storage units come in incredible variety, designed to display a single bottle until hundreds of bottles, and everything in between. Materials range from inexpensive pine racks to walnut, oak, or even more exotic wood wine racks.
The attractive look of wood can be associated to the strength of metal; very popular and functional are redwood wine racks, iron wine racks, all in a variety of styles.
Wine Storage Dos and Don’ts
1. Oxygen. Wine begins to spoil the moment it is opened. While short term exposure to oxygen or “breathing the wine” can open the aromas and flavours of various red wines, any contact with oxygen before opening a bottle and its all over, down the sink.
2. Strorage. When the wine is in an upright position as many are at your local liquor store for months and sometime years, the drying out of the cork will have disastrous effects due to oxidation. So try to buy wines that are stored lying down, or as becoming more popular, screw caped bottles. Store your wine at home in a wine rack or if you are serious about your wine collection, keep it in a temperature controlled wine cellar or cooler.
Wine Storage Tips
Once the clear wine has been bottled and you intend to keep it for more than three months, it is important to realize that corks dry out. When this happens, the shrinkage could cause the sealing-wax to crack, causing tiny air holes to appear and wild yeast and bacteria could attack the wine.
All bottles fitted with ordinary corks or cork-lined screw caps should always be stored on their sides. This allows for the wine to keep the cork moist (which prevents shrinkage). Rubber-banded screw-stopper bottles may be stored upright.
