{"id":16680,"date":"2012-08-29T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16680"},"modified":"2012-08-29T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:23:41","slug":"the-wine-cellar-proper-storage-for-your-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/29\/the-wine-cellar-proper-storage-for-your-wines\/","title":{"rendered":"The wine cellar: proper storage for your wines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/life.nationalpost.com\/2012\/08\/29\/fellers-and-their-cellars-toasting-a-trend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kelvin Browne<\/a> in the <em>National Post<\/em> on the modern wine cellar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I like wine cellars even more than I like wine, which is saying something. I used to have one in the basement of an 1870s stone house. This fantasy cellar had the ancient stone walls of the home\u2019s original foundation, new rough-hewn granite floors and wine racks made from reclaimed oak by a perfectionist craftsman. It kept wine at the requisite 56F to 57F, with humidity about 70%. Who knew cellars were in basements for a reason, as temperature and humidity didn\u2019t need much mechanical assistance here to be ideal for wine?<\/p>\n<p>I loved the cellar and bought cases for it to make sure the room was picturesque \u2014 right out of a French ch\u00e2teau. The room had a 600-bottle capacity. Practically speaking, my partner and I would have been fine with a 24-bottle wine fridge, but antique chairs and an elaborate tasting table don\u2019t suit such a setup.<\/p>\n<p>After we sold the farmhouse, we disposed of the wine to friends, also indulging in a massive liquidation binge ourselves, starting with wine at breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>The enduring lesson: If you like wine, you\u2019re likely a sensualist who loves the total experience, and that includes where you store your horde.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to have a wine cellar like that, but the corner of my basement that serves as my wine cellar will have to do: I can&#8217;t even afford to keep that fully stocked (and it holds a lot less than 600 bottles). Instead of the custom-crafted redwood or polished glass and stainless steel that some high-end cellars can boast, I have a pair of wooden Ikea bottle racks. They may not have the look of the &#8220;good&#8221; racks, but they work just as well &#8230; and far less expensively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelvin Browne in the National Post on the modern wine cellar: I like wine cellars even more than I like wine, which is saying something. I used to have one in the basement of an 1870s stone house. This fantasy cellar had the ancient stone walls of the home\u2019s original foundation, new rough-hewn granite floors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","category-wine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4l2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16682,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16680\/revisions\/16682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}