Okay, it may be a bit overboard, but we really wanted to a. change this dining room, b. cover up the ugly wall and c. store a bunch of wine without taking up a lot of room...
Look!: VintageView Racks Transform The Dining Room
We also believe in designing for abundance, particularly when it comes to food, wood, towels, ice cream and other things that directly affect our creature comforts, don't cost too much and help us from having to run to the corner store every night.
This was a project that we completed two weekend's ago at our family's home out on Long Island. The racks all came from the Beverage Factory and were easily installed with common sheetrock screws. The trick is measuring correctly and getting them all to line up.
After we'd finished, we went to our friend Jacques' wine shop and asked him to put together two cases of wine - his top picks - for between $10 and $20 a bottle. What you see is what he chose. It was one of the most satisfying projects we've completed to date. Our dining room looks so much better and we don't have to go to the wine store for a long time.
>> VintageView Wine Racks by Winemaster
NOTE ON WINE STORAGE:
BTW, for those of you who are wary of wine storage like this that leaves bottle vulnerable to the light, I asked a really knowledgeable fellow about this and he said that, yes, direct light is bad for wine. But if you're storing wine there to consume on a regular basis and not doing any aging, it is fine in this kind of rack. Wine is a lot sturdier than most people think. If you expose wine to drastic temperature changes, like from fridge to warm outdoor conditions, back in fridge, back outside, etc., that can take its toll. Ideally, wine should be kept in a darker place, but we all don't have perfect scenarios for storing wine and for a short period of time, this kind of storage is fine. Just about every wine store has similar lighting, and their bottles are kept out as well. The takeaway: drink it while it's fresh.
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All that bright daylight is not going to be good for the wine...
...it would be better off in a dark cool closet.
view bepsf's profile
Yikes. I, too, feel for the wine...
view sadia's profile
Won't someone please think of the wine!
view Archie's profile
I seriously doubt you have the liver to turn over that much wine to stay "fresh."
view illegal danish's profile
Get rid of the boob light, it's ghastly!
view sdnyc's profile
Could be interesting if friends figure out that they aren't getting the good stuff.
view feathers's profile
Hmm, if I have wine in the house I end up drinking it. I must have poor impulse control. Although that would be a lot of wine to drink.
view MiklakMiklak's profile
I do think it's a bit much... less is more.
view TiffanyH's profile
Wine store turnover is very fast compared to what you could expect from a household.
If you're buying bottles that retail for $10-20 and you make sure you drink through them within 2-3 months, you probably won't notice too many bad changes.Time to schedule lots of back-to-back dinner parties!
view laila's profile
Sure would love to know his wine recommendations!!
view jen_g's profile
very cool!
view hanako66's profile
It does not look good to me to see wine bottles displayed like this in the dinning room.
view poptart's profile
I think it looks great. So its not a FORMAL dining room, or an expensive and rare wine collection.... big deal. You are showcasing a collection, its personal, and FUN! Good solution. If you wanted to slow down on the consumption, just hang some dark curtains to block the sunlight from that side. People need to lighten up..... snark snark snark.
view MelissaLeigh's profile
Oh psh. For these people bemoaning the poor poor demise of these wines, I say lay off. I've been in the wine industry long enough and made enough wine (blah blah etc) to feel like my opinion is qualified enough to say that the wine there is in no danger.
Any wine in the $10-20 in my opinion should be considered fair game, ready to drink, and is be plenty fine sitting there for upwards of several months to (gasp!) a year (if you can hold off that long...). The stuff in the clear bottles I'd probably drink up sooner, but just as much because they're whites and/or rosés that are better to drink younger as much as there is the concern of becoming lightstruck. As for the green bottles, Maxwell's friend is correct that as long as there is no drastic temperature fluctuation, they should be tasting great for quite a long time.
I would dare anyone who has commented on the poor storage conditions of this wine to actually spot a lightstruck bottle in a blind tasting. It happens, of course, but is probably harder than you think to point it out, especially if you have no side-by-side comparison. Store the ageable stuff in a rarely used closet, buy a wine fridge, or rent some wine storage space if you're concerned about the expensive stuff. But for everyday dinner/cocktail wine, I think it's a great, playful, and convenient way to display cool bottles. I would get one for my home if I didn't spend so much darn money on the bottles themselves.
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