Rubber Bands For Wine...
My cellars successfully tested big earthquakes with millions of bottles in the Bay Area and Los Angeles a few years ago and I recently submitted both my rack system and overhead structural steel supports for full engineering calculations. These are now required under new seismic codes in many cities and counties. It was a surprise to find that these are required for shelving and racking over six feet high, even if not fixed to the structure.
Serious collectors generally want the best quality on the market, and can usually afford anything they want. Tethering all their wine to the racks with little rubber bands would be unlikely, unnecessary, and unsightly. Bolting such a device to racks in a cellar that I had designed and built would be worse than hanging those tacky little plastic labels on the bottles and would probably terminate my lifetime warranty.
More wine is destroyed by failure to consume in a timely manner than all other causes combined. The most common wine storage device is the trunk of a car, which generally prepares the wine for immediate consumption within 24 hours.
© Paul Wyatt™ 2007
Serious collectors generally want the best quality on the market, and can usually afford anything they want. Tethering all their wine to the racks with little rubber bands would be unlikely, unnecessary, and unsightly. Bolting such a device to racks in a cellar that I had designed and built would be worse than hanging those tacky little plastic labels on the bottles and would probably terminate my lifetime warranty.
More wine is destroyed by failure to consume in a timely manner than all other causes combined. The most common wine storage device is the trunk of a car, which generally prepares the wine for immediate consumption within 24 hours.
© Paul Wyatt™ 2007
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