I hate to disappoint, but we can't all have spiral wine cellars. (I know!) So what are the rest of us supposed to do with our wine bottles? Well, we could do worse than one of these clever storage solutions.
For me the biggest takeaway from these photos is this: awkwardly placed or otherwise unused areas in your home or kitchen may be the perfect wine storage solution. A blank wall, a narrow drawer or shelf, or the empty space above the kitchen cabinets can become, with a little tweaking, the perfect place to store your wine bottles, especially the ones that you know you'll drink soon.
Short-term wine storage can go nearly anywhere (you really don't have to worry about long-term cellaring issues like heat or light when you're going to drink the wine soon).
How do you store wine bottles? Do you have a favorite wine rack? A particularly useful DIY solution? Or do you not buy enough wine bottles to have it really be of any concern?
Related: Stylish Wine Storage: Eden Solid Oak Wine Rack
(Images: 1. Social Design Magazine; 2. Apartment Therapy; 3. Kyle Freeman; 4. Design*Sponge; 5. Martha Stewart; 6. Better Homes and Gardens; 7. Better Homes and Gardens; 8. Alvhem Makleri via Design Evolution; 9. Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan; 10. Home Restyle)
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Most of these storage areas go against every wine storage advice I have ever been given. Above a refrigerator is one of the hottest places in a kitchen. It may look cool but I'm not sure I would want to drink any of that wine.
We modified an idea we saw at Ikea when we updated our kitchen -- you can see it in our kitchen tour: http://www.thekitchn.com/template-kitchen-tour-franls-114250
Wow! I LOVE the bottle tree! Wish I had the space for it.
Yeah, I agree - I'd rather store my wine properly and impress people with the experience of drinking it rather than trying to impress them with the way I show it off...
Well, I'm not too worried about my mostly $10-20 "collection" being damaged by not storing it in my (nonexistent) wine cellar...so I found these interesting. I'm finishing my basement and am thinking about building storage for wine in, sort of similar to the first picture but under the stairs, as that space would otherwise be wasted.
I can't help but think that, with me in a kitchen, all of the bottle trees and protruding wine bottles from the wall would only end in tragedy. I can totally see myself blundering into one of those and, best case scenario, making a darned fool of myself.
Good thing my grocery budget isn't large enough to make wine storage a conundrum.
Okay, that second one is awesome! You could label the drawers with the bottles, etc.! I'm letting my inner nerd show a bit here, but I just think that is too cool!
I'm with @ccp mbd- the higher-up storage solutions seem like a terrible idea, given heat and (vibration, above appliances) concerns.
Then again, if you're buying expensive wine and you're not going to drink it right away, one would hope you'd know how to properly store it. One would hope...
@HLG22 - there are a lot of great wines at $10-20 a bottle... but it doesn't matter how much you paid, if the wine gets ruined it will taste like crap...
I don't have a cellar or a huge collection. I just have a wine fridge down in the basement that holds about 24 bottles (and is rarely ever full, but there are a few special bottles in there).
I like #9 and am disappointed that there aren't any details about it's source or construction. Would like to know where to get it!
@username26 I'm with you. It's like these articles you see about what to do with left over wine. What IS that?
It's probably irrational, but any wineholder that stores wine from the neck (like the last one) makes me nervous about it somehow cracking.
Though, like others have said, wine doesn't really last that long in my house.
Ha - agreed :)