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Raina
Aug
23
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Dominique Halet asked:


Appreciating to drink a rare and fine wine can give you the desire to start creating your own wine-cellar. Collecting wine can be a very pleasant hobby. Especially when you seek the bottle of wine which is different from the others.

If you wish to start a wine collection, you will have to spend a little more money than you think. Indeed, wine collecting is expensive. The few councils exempted below will help you to start your own wine-cellar.

The space

First thing to do is to find a place where you will place your wine-cellar. You can store it in your house but you will have to find the good place: sufficient space and ideal temperature (50 up to 65°F).

You must also plan which type of wine you will include in your wine-cellar. So many options are available that it is sometimes difficult to choose.

In order to better prepare your new wine bottles storage, you will test some various types of wine. You will learn much by yourself ; for example: identify wine tastes. As you probably already know, there are many differences between wines coming from great vintages and wines coming from new or immediately processed wine and that some wines can age, others cannot.

If you have just started a wine-collecting or built a wine-cellar, you should avoid buying your wine in great quantities as long as you are not sure about the type of wine that you plan to add to your cellar.

Wine Culture

Participate in purses and tasting events. In these places, you can meet other persons who are passionate by wine collecting and who will give you the best addresses and suppliers. You will also learn more about the different brands and their prices.

You can also learn a lot by surfing on the Internet and searching for information about wine; by subscribing to some informative newsletters ; by buying some books and read them in order to familiarize with your new hobby.

Supplier

You will also have to choose a good supplier.

While visiting your wine supplier, tell him that you are collecting wine bottles ; this person will inform you if the wine that you want to buy can age in a cellar or not.

Also ask your supplier if the wines you are collecting are available in his inventory.

If you hope to collect wines from other areas, he may be able to give you contact information for finding the wines you are interested in.

Wine suppliers information and addresses are available online.

Wine from other Countries

If you plan to collect wine coming from other countries, your supplier will be able to give you the right addresses. Also, you can make a search on Google in order to find the best foreign wine supplier or mail directly the vine-grower or even the castle where the wine is bottled.

A French proverb said: “It is while forging that one becomes blacksmith”. Perhaps you will realize that collecting wine becomes a passion and that you want to start your own wine selling business. When you will have bought a sufficient quantity of rare wine bottles, you will be able to start your new business and sell your greatest bottles

Jennifer

Aug
19
David Cowley asked:


Many would-be wine drinkers are put off by the idea that they have to come up with an elaborate and expensive wine storage method (along with many bottles of wine) before they can start enjoying the pastime of drinking and enjoying wine.
However, this is not the case at all.  Wine can be enjoyed even if you do not have a lot of space for wine storage.  Many people make do with a small corner of their kitchen, and still others simply buy a bottle or two at a time as they are needed.
Why Store Wine?
During the Roman Empire, the long-held belief that all wine should be consumed sooner rather than later was disproven.  Romans stored their wine in tightly closed bottles and noticed that some wines improved in taste and complexity the longer they were allowed to age. 
Most white wines do not continue to improve when aged, making them poor candidates for long-term storage and some reds are better when they are consumed as soon as you buy them.  However, there are many reds that will age very nicely, making your wine storage efforts worthwhile.
Even if you do not plan to drink the wine after it is aged, buying a case of immature wine and holding on to it until it is at its optimum drinking age can be a wise investment.  Many savvy wine drinkers buy a case of young wine, store it until it is aged completely, and then sell off half of the case while keeping the other half to drink.  This can net a nice profit, even effectively meaning that you get half a case of wine for free.
How Do You Start A Wine Storage Effort?
You do not need to have a huge wine cellar with an entire wall of storage.  If you have a temperature-controlled, dark, and moderately humid cellar that can serve as wine storage, then great!  However, most people do not have this luxury. 
For everyone else, there are many other wine storage options.  Most wines purchased by the casual drinker will be ready-to-drink and do not require any significant amount of wine storage for the purposes of improving the taste.  In fact, most ready-to-drink bottles should not be kept in wine storage for more than 8-12 months.
If you have just a few bottles, a small wine storage rack placed in your living room or in a dark closet will be sufficient.  You will want to avoid having the rack in your kitchen due to the temperature fluctuations that are unavoidable around the stove and oven.
If you plan to keep a few more bottles around for a long amount of time, a popular wine storage method is a portable wine cellar.  These appliances look like small “dorm” refrigerators and can be kept nearly anywhere in your home where you have room.  They are climate-controlled and will keep your wine at optimum wine storage conditions.
Whichever method of wine storage appeals to you, there are a few basic factors to remember: tilt the bottles to keep the corks wet, keep the temperature somewhere between 45 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit at all times, and above all, keep the bottles away from direct sunlight and heat.

Viviana
Stuart Jay asked:


Wine racks and storage options come in many different styles and purchasing budgets. Whether you are an avid wine aficionado, an aficionado in the making, a wine hobbyist, or someone who wishes to protect valuable vintages from prying eyes or place a cherished wine collection of sophistication and refinement on exhibit — the where and how’s of wine storage and wine rack placement is an issue.

It’s important to have an attractive and durable wine rack storage system. It is a given that anyone interested in having a growing wine collection would not want to do so behind a kitchen cabinet.

Most oenophiles (a disciplined devotion to wine, with strict traditions of consumption and appreciation, simply put, a lover of wine) long for a cellar of stocked wine racks, and since digging out a cave in most instances for a wine cellar is impractical and exorbitantly expensive, stand alone wine rack options in a good environment is a good place to start. You do not have to live over an arching grotto, or have the budget of an eighteenth century land baron, to cellar wine. You just have to understand the basics of wine storage pertaining to temperature, humidity and light to do it right.

An important factor with wines is the place where you will store the bottles to age.

Few environments are as potentially destructive to wine as the home. Too much humidity causes mold and damages the labels. This is also why cellars are often tiled rather than carpeted, as carpeting holds moisture facilitating mold. Humidity as high as 70 percent is desirable so corks don’t dry out. When allowed to dry out, corks shrink slightly allowing air into the bottles and oxidizing of the wine occurs. This is also why the wine racks store bottles on their sides: the wine keeps the cork wet, and the oxygen out.

Darkness is preferable, even though most wine is bottled in colored glass to protect it against most light damage. The proper storage temperature of 50-60F enables wine to age slowly to its full complexity. Excess heat cooks off its finer characteristics, while too much chill retards its maturation.

Wine racks are available in a wide assortment of materials, sizes and styles to suit any 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 to complement the home, restaurant, or business.

Low-cost wine racks can be bought prefabricated or in do-it-yourself assembly kits.

Wine racks made of stainless steel and wire grids are less expensive. These decorative units can have a place for short term storage and display. If you are in the business to sell wine, be sure to showcase your collection with the best retail wine racking possible to help you market and sell more.

The warmth of wood is a popular choice for wine racks to display and store your fine wines. Softwoods such as Pine and Douglas Fir are more prone to warping but usually do not pose a problem if obtained from a good supplier using a premium grade who will stand behind the wine racks’ integrity, making these good, low-cost options, mainly because they’re easier to work with, and lighter to ship than hardwoods.

Distinctive wine racks also come in Maple and Red Oak. However, the best are made from more expensive rainforest woods, such as Californian Redwood. Redwood wine racks absorb moisture with little warping.

The wine rack should be in a cool, dark area of the house, such as the basement, cold storage room or closet. The basement is often the best place in the house for your wine since concrete heats up and cools down slowly. But, be aware that by the end of each season, accumulated heat or cold in the concrete can still make the conditions less than ideal for long-term wine storage.

It’s important to ensure that the room is dark, properly insulated to control the temperature and free from sources of vibration such as furnaces or fridges. Avoid leaving food, cardboard boxes or paint in the cellar. The chemicals in these materials break down over time and it’s possible their odors can seep into the wine through the cork.

Don’t have a full-sized room available to devote to a wine cellar? You can transform a closet or pantry into a customized mini wine cellar - complete with cooling unit and cellar door should you choose.

Buying a wine fridge suits anyone who has limited space.

A wine fridge is temperature and humidity controlled. The kitchen fridge is too cold and isn’t humid enough for wine long term. Wine fridges come in half, full and double sizes, as well as large walk-in style vaults.

Enjoying wine is about celebrating, relaxing, enjoying conviviality and all that it encompasses — taste, history, science, culture, friendship and intimacy. So reach for that special bottle from the wine rack and enjoy!

Grace

Rini Brown asked:


Welcome to Fine Wine Accessories in UK providing excellent and unusual wine accessories, Hotel and bar accessories, Hotel & Bar equipments and Wineaccessory gifts.

All Wine accessories have its special features. For wine cooling, we have wine coolers, wine buckets, ice buckets, Wine Sceptre, Champagne Bowl, and very unusual wine Cool Bags. Rapid Ice Wine Cooler and rapid ice champagne cooler are also offered. Also we have Slimline Wine Cooler with cabinet which can be used in kitchen to store your wine bottles. Sometime we need to wait for hours for our red wine to reach the correct temperature, so for this we have introduce Wine Warmer Therm au Rouge. This is unique energizing gel gently warms up your wine in a controlled and sophisticated way.

We also wine tasting accessories such as wine tasting glasses, Clef du Vin, Blind Tasting Cover, I.S.O Tasting Glass, Spiegelau glasses, Spittoon Bucket for all wine tasting from Club to Trade. An essential wine measures and spirit measure in stainless Steel with govt stamped are also supplied.

We have huge wine decanters stock which gradually keeps changing everyday. Captain decanter, Ship Decanter, claret jug, hogget decanter, wine decanting cradle, decanting cradle in brass, and silver plate are main decanters preferred by wine accessories customers. Most attractive and useful decanting funnels and aerators are also offered. For outdoor trips we have good selection of hip flasks, Pewter hip flasks round and rectangular, Hip Flask - Leather Captive, and Pewter Hip Flask Funnel. Be different and order a Wine Tastevin such as Burgundian Tastevin or a Plain Wine Tasting Bowl Serpent Handle Tastevin or even a Pewter Quaiches. We also offer the Vacu Vin Wine Saver, Wine Preservers and Wine Breathers which is necessary for keeping your opened bottles fresh.

Other mostly commonly used wine accessories are wine glasses, champagne glasses, Champagne flutes, wine cellar accessories, wine cellar book, wine cellar Hygrometers, and wine cellar thermometers, Champagne Accessories, Cocktail Accessories. Then we have wine pourers, bottle pourers and drip rings, wine bottle stoppers, wine bottle coasters, wine table mats, wine openers.

All range of Corkscrews from simple to exotic such as lazyfish corkscrew, Bar- Mounted Corkscrew, Screwpull Corkscrew, electric corkscrew, winemaster corkscrew, air pump corkscrew, laguiole corkscrew, Wall-mounted Corkscrew and many more in corkscrew is offered by Fine wine Accessories in UK.

For excellent wine Pourers, we have Wine pouring baskets, wine pouring cradles, Universel’ Pouring Arc, Chrome Plated Pouring Arc, Silver Plate Wine Pouring Basket, and Pewter Wine Pouring Cradle.

Whether you are looking for wine accessory for yourself or wine accessory gifts for birthday presents, wedding present, or Christmas presents, Fine wine accessories offer different kind of wine accessory for different budget.

Visit our miscellaneous gifts category for unusual wine presents such as key rings, salt and pepper mills and grape scissors, tastevins, Laguiole corkscrews in presentation boxes, key ring sized hip flasks, crystal decanters, decanting cradles, wine cooler bags, wine picnic baskets, and wine savers etc. Classic champagne sabres are an ideal presents for men and wine lovers.

Hurry up wine lovers, browse and order your wine accessory today either by online or by visiting our shop or by phone.

Kelsey