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Wine racks are the most convenient way to store and organise your wine

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Wine racks are the most convenient way to store and organise your wine

Having decided where to store your wine, the next task is selecting a wine rack; now you might accuse us of bias here, but we feel that there is no better option than Winerax!

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Reclaim your garage with a little help from Winerax!

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Reclaim your garage with a little help from Winerax!

How’s your garage - can you actually park your car inside, or is it typically left out on the drive or street because the garage floor is covered with other items?A common theme amongst recent enquiries received at Winerax has been the question: “Please can you help us get our garage back?”.Now don’t get us wrong, we are no saints here, and our garages are equally challenged, just not where our wine is concerned!We all start out with great intentions for our garages with plans for clever pegboards to store our tools on, etc., this despite the fact that although...

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Wine & Ageing

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These past few weeks as the New Year has sunk in, and we’ve gotten used to typing 2017, it got us thinking about “ageing”, and in particular “wine and ageing”, as after all, if you are going to keep your wine you are going to need a storage solution too!We’ve written before about how best to cellar your wine and about how wine collecting is seen by some as an investment, and recently an article by South African wine writer Tim James’s caught our eye and gave us a chuckle, mainly because of his opening statement:“There are two aspects, I’m...

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Wine Collecting Tips & Mistakes to Avoid

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We’ve just been reading an article on www.winemag.com by Paul Gregutt (Contributing Editor) that caught our attention thanks to its tag line: “Think you don’t have the space or the budget to start a wine cellar? Think again. With a few tips, a stellar collection can be within everyone's reach”; which of course resonated with us here at WINERAX as our WRX12 Starter Module is the perfect wine rack for starting out your wine collection with.Paul Gregutt goes on to say: “There are many benefits to starting a modest wine collection. Notice I said “wine collection,” not wine cellar. A...

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Should you or shouldn’t you chill your wine?

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Should you or shouldn’t you chill your wine?

Most people will probably answer this question with a simple “Yes for White, and No for Red”, and very few would argue against this perceived wisdom.We typically serve / drink red wine at “room temperature”, but this does somewhat beg the question “what is room temperature?” as this will change with the climate and from location to location, and let’s be honest, whilst we might use a food thermometer to check that our chicken is cooked through, but even then probably only if we are serving to guests, we are not going to put it in our wine glass!In case...

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