Decanting your wines, particularly your older wines, jus prior to drinking is the only thing that will ensure that sediment doesn’t interfere with the tasting. Also, the colors and clarity of your wine must have some air in order to be brought out.
In addition to the Riedel Ultra Wine Decanter I opted to get a large lead crystal decanter stopper for about $20 USD. This way I can keep wine left over can be kept from getting too much air. It is all right to keep red wines in decanters for longer periods of time, so long as you use a decanter stopper.
The one I found at Wine Enthusiast is a beautiful sphere shaped piece of glass that provides a simple air tight seal for any wine I choose to keep in my larger decanters. The large round decanter stopper that I got could also double as a beautiful paper weight if one so desired.
Of course if you’re going to keep a selection of wine glasses for family and guests, then you are going to need a place in which to store the wine glasses, such as an over head wine glass rack or a wall mounted wine glass rack.
There are also both overhead and wall mounted wine racks that include both a wine glass rack portion as well as a wine bottle rack portion. These combination racks can be the most suitable and highly versatile wine racks available.
If you wish to expand upon your current wine cellar, or would like to start building one, there are several wine supply companies that offer modular wine racking systems and individual pieces that allow you to mix and match different racking styles and functions into your wine cellar design.
There are also wine tasting tables and wine glass racks that are individual modular wine racking pieces that incorporate into a larger modular wine racking system and give your wine cellar multifunctional purpose and style.
There are several places online that offer a variety of wine cellar designs that you can build on your own. There are even custom wine cellar design services that you can contact and have build a custom wine cellar system precisely to your instruction and requirements.
Places like the http://www.wineenthusiast.com are great places to start to get an idea of the various wine cellar and wine drinking accessories that are available today. There are ways to have wine tasting and wine storage areas no matter how large of small your wine collection is.
For more information I suggest you find some type of wine enthusiast website that offers an online community where you can get to know others that share the same interests that you have related to wine and wine collecting. Not only will you learn a thing or two about wine, but you’ll probably make a friend or two as well.
