There was a time when my husband Rey used to be a regular wine and liquor enthusiast. Being in the Security Business for quite sometime with most of the people he mingles and associate with are dominantly the male group and as expected, most of them are social drinkers. During special occasions like birthdays and Christmases, wines and liquors are generally doled out as gifts to male clients, supervisors, managers and the like ranging from ordinary to the more expensive brands depending on the recipient’s status. On hubby’s part, he gets more expensive ones and store them in a special Wine Rack together with his other collections.

For a wine and liquor lover like my husband, good wine racks are a necessity. Fine wines are worth paying extra for only if you can store and eventually serve them in good condition. Finding an appropriate place to store wine should be an issue for almost everyone. A little ingenuity may be required. The principles behind storing wine is not as complex as you may think nor difficult to understand or necessarily difficult to achieve. There are but a few factors to consider when storing wines such as TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY, CALMNESS, DARKNESS, CLEANLINESS, VENTILATION and ANGLE OF STORAGE.

Not until hubby acquired diabetes (it’s in the genes) and became hypertensive with his cholesterol and triglycerides slightly elevated that he resorted to having red or white wine once in a while because of the its beneficial effects on the heart.

Nowadays, all the special wines and liquors that hubby has are just on display and may only be taken out from a special Wine Rack when good old friends come and visit him for a drink or two.