For many people, give them a good vintage bottle of wine and their in what I call euphoric bliss. In order to truly understand why wine is so popular around the world, you would have to collect wine as a hobby. Then after years of personal experience tasting a variety of different wines you would become what is known as a wine connoisseur.
For those of you, and you know who you are, who have collections of fine wine in your home, you are aware that you must store you wine properly in order to preserve the quality of your collection. It is far too easy to let a fabulous vintage turn to vinegar in no time at all.
For those of you who are just starting out, you need to know what you have to do in order to keep your bottled wine from spoiling. It is often said that ignorance is bliss, but ignore your collection of fine wine by standing the bottles straight on a shelf and you will soon see (and taste) how good wine is not supposed to taste.
For the novice wine collector, you are the individual who has a need to know that you have to preserve the cork in the wine bottle by placing the bottle on its side. This will keep the cork from drying out and breaking the seal to the precious wine inside.
You must also know that keeping wine at a cool temperature is a must. Temperatures too warm or too cook will damage your wine. The result is an embarrassing moment when you have friends over, you pop open a treasured vintage and a distasteful expression appears on their faces.
None of this will ever happen if you take good care of your wine collection. An easy way to take care of your vintage wine is to store your wine on a wall mounted wine rack. These wall mounted wine racks are easy to install. Depending on the amount of wine bottles in your collection, you have a variety of sizes, styles and features to make each and every wine bottle in your collection extremely happy to live a long and tasteful life.
So now let’s go over your options and you can see for yourself what type of wall mounted wine rack best fits into your wine collecting lifestyle.
I’m going to start with the Cioso wall-mounted wine bottle holder. This simple straight vertical bar wine bottle holder has eight rings integrated into the bar. There are, of course, enough rings to hold eight bottles of wine by inserting the bottle neck.
If you have a larger collection of vintage wine, then the Deluxe wine & glass wall wine r rack may be something that you may be interested in. This 3-tiered wrought iron wine rack has three shelves that hold 4 bottles per shelf. Also, the bottom of this rack is a wine glass holder that holds the wine glasses upside down by sliding the inverted glass base into the provided slots. Very decorative.
For my last example today, let’s take a look at the Series Twenty-Seven bottle wall mounted wine rack. You guessed it. This wall mounted unit holds 27 bottles of your prime vintage. Much like the Cioso wall-mounted wine bottle holder, this wall mounted rack boasts superior air flow, so all bottles will receive the proper temperature although they are stored three bottles side by side and nine rows tall. Perfect wall mounted unit for slightly larger wine collections.
If you are looking to store larger collections of wine, you might want to look into floor standing wine racks.
Wall mounted wine racks serve two purpose. They help keep your vintage wine from spoiling over time. They also can add a decorative charm to a kitchen or dining room. Those of you who have a passion for fine wine will want to have a wall mounted wine rack in order to show off your good taste.
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June 21st, 2009 at 6:54 am
June 21st, 2009 at 6:59 am
Yeah . . . .
So you’re just into pissing money away and you have none left to hire true winemakers and grape growers, so you turned to Yahoo Answers to get your 3 paragraph crash course?? In that case, I just cloned a dinosaur in my kitchen . . . . Woo Hoo!
What happened to your Cambridge acceptance to get a law degree and your other promising future as a doctor???
I call B.S. on this one!
June 21st, 2009 at 7:05 am
i live in britain and well wines aint exactly adictive or good!!!
June 21st, 2009 at 7:11 am
what ever CHARLIEISSOCOOLLIKE says its true!!
June 21st, 2009 at 7:21 am
lmao , i no someone called alex day but its a girl , strange , nd ur right it matters to the british ! haha
June 21st, 2009 at 9:23 am
i dont like greens or yellows.
blacks and oranges are my favourite.
i wish we could choose..
June 21st, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Pick up a nice cheap sauvignon blanc. It's crisp and light. Unlike chardonnay which is too oaky and buttery for me now. Not unless you want your chicken dish to taste like you dipped it in a vat of butter! Hee. Other good light choices are pinot gris or pinot grigio.
June 21st, 2009 at 6:56 pm
the black berry mong !!
June 21st, 2009 at 7:44 pm
yes, the cooking wine next to vinegar is ok
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:32 am
heehee. you’re funny.
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 am
actually they’re blackcurrant flavoured.
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Lmao “Not sure if they’re pubic or not..” I dunno why I find that funny, I just do.
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Special wine with a very high alcohol content, supposedly…so it kills the germs of the person who drank before you…eeew.
Until it is consecrated that is, then it becomes the blood of Christ and is no longer wine.
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:50 am
subscrobin
June 24th, 2009 at 1:48 am
First you must find a type of red wine you enjoy drinking. There are so many varietials out there. What kinds of foods do you enjoy?
For Steak, you may want a merlot or cabernet
For Lamb, you may want a cebernet or zinfandel
For BBQ, you may want a zinfandel
For grilled chicken and/or pork perhaps a pinot
There's no right or wrong choice, wine is about preference.
There are a couple great wines out in the market place which are under $40 and have had great reviews and are good to drink now or celler for while. 2003 Whitehall Lane Cabernet has had several great reviews. But there are also sooo many others. Hartford Court also has some wonderful Zinfandels and Pinot's.
Wine tasting a big thing now… you may want to check out a site called localwineevents.com to see if there is a wine tasting event in your area to gather the information you need to make an informed selection.
June 24th, 2009 at 3:33 am
June 24th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
To make wine at home, these are my favorite resources:
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/
For virtually any fruit wine, the fruit is crushed in a press to extract the juice. Depending on the style, the pulp and seeds will be left in the must to ferment with the juice. For others, it will be strained out.
I just finished a batch of pomegranate wine (where the seeds pretty much ARE the juice) where I crushed all the pomegranates myself. It's quite a bit of work without the proper press.
June 24th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
If drinking wine you plan 1 bottle for 4 and 1/2 servings – however a tasting is far less about 1 oz per taster (about 30ml) which is approximately 25 tastings per bottle (750ml). I do recommend purchasing a few extra bottles to sell (just double your purchase price) or making a deal with a local wine seller to give you a commission for referring people to them for additional bottles. Have a card handy with the sellers name, address and a list of the wines they are tasting as well as a 1-5 score for the taster to keep so they remember the wines they preferred. Don't forget to have a selection of cheeses and crackers as well as some grapes and lots of water for cleansing the pallet (i recommend having a large vessel with cucumber slices in it for a full cleanse of the wine sugars) – then pour it into smaller pitchers as you go. Hope this helps!