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There are generally two options available when it comes to wine racks for your cellar – prefabricated wine racks or custom-made wine racks. Determining whether to purchase wine racks and...
Sep 12, 2016 · Affordable, anonymous "house wine" might be the best bang for your buck. Or is it? Here's how to know if you should order it.
- A Wine Cellar Is The Perfect Place to Store… Beer?
- The Best Way to Keep Your Olive Oil
- Storing Cheeses and Cured Meats
- A Wine Cellar Can Double as A Cigar Humidor
- The Home Entertainer’S Dilemma: Where to Put All of The Food?
- Use Your Imagination
Beer bottles, cans, growlers, and kegs too: All are hermetically sealed and impervious to the humidity of a wine cellar. If you enjoy esoteric beers from around the world and want to display your menagerie, this is the place to do it! Some styles of craft beer are best served at warmer temperatures, so a wine cellaris actually better for your Belgi...
Grapevines and olive trees love similar climates and it’s not uncommon for vineyards (especially in the Mediterranean and California) to produce their own olive oil. If you’ve returned from your travels with a few bottles or cans of high-end olive oil they can go in your cellar. As with wine, light, heat, and oxygen are the enemies of olive oil, so...
Unfortunately, most gourmet cheeses require very high humidity (around 95%) for long-term aging, so a wine cellar won’t cut it. While you can hold cheeses there for a short while, keep in mind they’ll probably leave your cellar smelling a bit funky. Fortunately, you can store certain types of cured meats, sausages, and salamis in a wine cellar. Cur...
Cigar aficionados will tell you that an environment of 70% humidity is ideal for a humidor, but according to the experts at JR Cigar, 60% will work as long as it’s consistent. It’s not uncommon for stogie lovers to bump their cellar’s humidity level up to keep their cigars. And if your cellar has multiple climate zones, even better. You may want to...
If you host events at home you know the pain all too well: Whether hiring a caterer or doing the prep yourself, there’s never enough room in the fridge to put all the food before the event. Although a wine cellar is not the same temperature as a standard refrigerator (most kitchen refrigerators are around 43°F), it does offer a cool, stable environ...
A wine cellar doesn’t have to be one-dimensional. When you think about the amount of time, effort, and money it takes to build something of this magnitude, it deserves to be more than just functional. Let your passion for life come through by making it a space that showcases your diverse interests. If you’re starting from scratch and want to explor...
May 17, 2022 · Starting with 200-300 percent over retail is a generally accepted markup standard for wine in restaurants. If a wine retails for $20, you should look to price it somewhere in the $60-$80 neighborhood. For rare, vintage, or otherwise specialty wine options, markups can be significantly higher (into the 400-500% range).
Feb 22, 2016 · So, the first thing you should know is there’s a difference between wine that’s mass produced and sold nationally or internationally, and wine from wineries that sell locally.
Apr 21, 2024 · Those costs can include equipment for producing and storing wine, infrastructure and, crucially, the land to grow grapes. "We really don't have that much land that is appropriate for grape...
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Nov 2, 2018 · New barrels do two key things: impart flavour and oxygenate. Flavour is used up after about three years, so for a producer who wants 100% new oak every year, the ‘old’ barrels will still have a couple of years’ flavour in them. Buying these could be good value for another producer.
