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Wine Storage Solutions At Your Fingertips
Do you know what the word oenophile means? If you said an appreciator of wines, you are right. You may even be an oenophile yourself. How is wine made? When yeast and grape juice or any other sweet liquid are combined, fermentation occurs and the magical drink that is wine is created. Back in the ancient world someone discovered that if he put yeast into grape juice he turned it into an entirely new drink. What he may or may not have understood is that yeast causes the grape juice to ferment which changes all the sugar in the juice into alcohol. He shared his drink with others who agreed that he had come up with something pretty good. That is when ancient peoples began intentionally making juice into wine. In that time period wine storage solutions were not so much of a problem. Crocks and ewers were the choices that you had and there was hardly a way of controlling temperature or humidity. This made it uncertain that when you opened the crock if you would find vinegar or wine. The first wine cellars came to be after caves and cellars were found to be good conditions for wine to reach it's peak. Just as they learned that wine needs different conditions to develop and quite another set for aging and storage, modern wine lovers have learned that wine storage solutions need to meet different situations. For modest wines in a home that is kept at a reasonably moderate temperature and humidity, open wine racks provide adequate wine storage for many tastes. Wine storage coolers work to protect wine and keep it at its best possible quality. If you are a serious wine lover you may want to purchase one in order to maintain more precise conditions for your wine. The sizes of wine storage coolers vary and can be as large as a room sized refrigerator chamber, or small enough to hold only one bottle. Choosing the best wine storage solutions for your household will depend on what is being stored, the budget, and preferred taste. It is difficult to get wine to stay at it's peak and even more difficult to get it to reach it's peak. Temperature range for wine is not very broad, it needs to be no lower than 40 degrees and no higher than 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Little variation is allowed and no more than five degrees. The less temperature variation occurs the better and it should happen less than one time per year. Humidity should be kept at more than fifty percent and the cooler should be out of the sun and light free, which is something that can harm wines. One important factor to consider in a wine storage
unit is the angle the bottles will be housed at. Preferably, the
bottles should be stored on horizontally on their sides, but can
be stored at up to a 45 degree angle. Wine racks are the best storage
method, but coolers are also sometimes used to stack bottles. A
storage rack should be able to accommodate both standard wine bottles
and unique sizes and shapes. FYI:
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