Basic Tips On Wine Racks

There are many different styles and sizes when it comes to wine racks these days. It is important to have a durable rack but it should also be attractive this isn't a beer fridge we're talking about here. A good place to start is a stand alone wine rack option, its looks great and doesn't cost an arm and a leg to purchase. As long as you properly follow the temperature, humidity and light rules to storing wine you'll have a easy and enjoyable time storing and drinking your wine.

Many people make their own wine cellars and wood wine racks line the walls. For many, a wine cellar can be created in their basement. A simple small room can be designed with glass doors to be able to view the wood wine racks that hold all of the wine bottles.

Storing Environments

Although there are very few places to put your wine rack that are destructive, there are places that can bring out the full flavor of your wine. Too much humidity around your wine can cause mold and damage the labels. The ideal humidity is 70 percent - thats why its best to have your rack(s) on tile floors and not on carpet, as this helps keeps the corks from drying out. Having darkness in your storage area will help colour change of the bottle and label even though most bottles are dark. The best storage temperature is 50-60F, this helps the wine age slowly to get the best taste out of it.

Wine racks come in all sorts of different materials, sizes and styles for any type of person or situation or decor for both home and commercial use wood, metals like wrought iron and stainless steel, wire, wall mounted or hanging as well as attractive wine furniture pieces. At first people wouldn't think that storing and aging wine is both a science and an art, it doesn't mean that you buy a rack, forget about it for a while, one day come across it again and drink it, it takes patience and some simple knowledge. The whole aging process, like I said, is a science, The reactions involved are well understood, predicable and clearly illustrate why proper storage is so important.

On the art side of things, Wine composition is diverse and complex and it can be extremely difficult to predict the end result that aging will have on any particular brand. It's just as tough to predict results among different vintages of the same brand (That's why there are vintage charts.) Even experienced enologists with proper cellars are not always successful.

The History

The history of wine is a little cloudy, but people have dated it as far back as 60,000 B.C. and have been drinking, storing and aging ever since. As civilizations grew, the art of creating drinks that could be enjoyed in social situations and with meals also became an active industry. The importance of the grape to ancient man can be traced back to cave drawings where grapes were drawn onto the walls. It is thought that ancient Egypt may be the birth place of making wine. The ancient Egyptians made clay containers that held wine for both the living and the dead. Wine containers have even been found in ancient tombs.