A Guide to Wine Racks - Display Your Fine Wine with Style

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Wine is much more than a mere alcohol based drink - for wine connoisseurs, drinking wine means a sacred ritual that should be performed perfectly and artistically.

From selecting the bottle to storing, from swirling the wine into proper glasses to holding the glasses stylishly by its stem - all reflect a person’s grooming towards the appreciation of fine wine.

Storage is important to retain the taste
For a wine connoisseur, his collection of fine wine is no less than a treasure trove! For some his wine collection is a source of pleasure and enjoyment as and when he feels for it!

People even choose to maintain wine collections as a way of investment!

Whatever may be the objective, the safety of your prized possession is important. If you don’t want your bottle of vintage champagne to turn into a horrendous liquid having a striking resemblance with vinegar, you must learn how to store them properly, so that you get it fresh every time you reach out for it.

Your options for wine storage
When it comes to storing your expensive wines, you have four major types of storage options:

• racks
• coolers
• cabinets
• cellars

Why you should opt for wine racks
Each mode of wine storage has its own functionality. So far the wine racks are concerned; they help to achieve the bottles the proper angles. The best way to preserve the wine bottles is to place them at angles and not allow them to sit on their bases. This arrangement ensures that cork will remain moist. By placing the bottles on wine racks, you can make sure that the proper angle has been achieved.

Choose from different types of wine racks

• So far as the styles and materials are concerned, the wine racks come in incredible variety - starting from wood wine racks with classical appeal to the wrought iron racks with contemporary look and feel.
• Depending on your display needs you can have them designed as hanging wine racks, table top wine racks, counter top wine racks, floor wine racks or cellar wine racks.
• Cellar wine racks are generally designed as expandable to grow with your collection.
• Depending on the size of your collection, you can opt for a small rack for a single bottle or multi-tiered rack to stack hundreds of bottles of wine.
• However, for the larger wine collection, free standing wine racks make for an attractive display.

The points to consider before you buy the wine rack

• Think beforehand the number of bottles and the type of wine you are planning to store and make purchase accordingly.
• Check whether the racks have slots to accommodate large format bottles, which are the most popular options for wine these days; make sure the slot is at least three and three quarter inches.
• For serious collectors, the racks with a number of larger capacity slots make the most practical choice.

The wine racks don’t come with cooling facilities; so keep the rack in a place that is naturally suitable for the storage of wines.