"WineCellar" news and stories

I don't know about you, but every time I buy a bottle of wine, I wonder where I will store it. I have a modest wine storage unit, and I often think back to the day when I stepped into a house for sale and saw a large wine cellar, protected by a gorgeous wrought iron door. To have such storage -- that would be divine.

I imagine if you have $30K to burn, you're probably not worrying about wine storage, but for the cool factor alone, why not look into an ultra-cool spiral wine cellar that opens up right in your kitchen floor? Just imagine -- while you're tending to guests and preparing their meal, you mention a wine. In a blink, you open a hatch, and climb down a stairwell encased by a number of bottles of wine. You pick your beloved grape, and climb up with the desired bottle.

You would be the coolest house on the block, that's for sure!

{via The Kitchn]

Did you ever go to the beach and think "this would be great for wine storage?" Well someone did. For the past few years some French wine makers have been storing and maturing wine about 15 meters under water.

Proponents of this method say it works because "temperature is a constant 10 degrees, the movement of the current gently rocks the bottles and there is no danger of damage from UV light." They do say, though, that the ocean has more of an effect on white wines than reds.

Recently, the top French champagne maker Louis Roederer is testing ocean storage with some if its bubbly. They're giving the wines a year to age, and if they have an improved taste then this could be the wine storage wave of the future.

[via GuardianOnline]

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