There used to be three sections of wine in my house:
- Closet wine – expensive/special or bottles that need to age
- Fridge wine – daily drinkers
- Shelf wine – somewhere between daily drinkers and special, ie don’t drink it as bottle 2 or 3!
But I realized I was doing it all wrong. Here’s the flowchart:
- Expensive/special wine needs to be wine fridge wine, and not stored in the pantry.
- I have plenty of storage; there’s no need for display wine on the shelf, so they can all go together. Though I like most of my reds with a slight chill on them, I can put them in the food fridge 10 mins before I want to drink them, and they’ll be at the perfect temp.
- The wine fridge needed to move to my auxiliary bedroom closet, plugged into the light socket with this amazing $2 converter.
- So, I need to build a wine rack for the pantry. Why build? Because I’m a dirty hippie, currently unemployed, and like building stuff.
- The shelf needed to move out of the closet into my office, so I effectively re-did two closets and the pantry.
My dad and I raided his lumber stash in his workshop, and came up with a wild, but very cool design. I painted it and sealed it, and now it’s ready to be stocked with wine!
We used all reclaimed materials: the wainscoting from a family member’s old house, plus random pieces of wood my dad collected from who knows where. It made this.
We also used a hilarious combination of screws, nails, a nail gun, wood glue, and physics to get the thing to be sturdy enough for me to trust it with my precious juice.
“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida
*The wine rack was finished last week, and should have been mentioned as part of FGF, but I was saving all the goodness for today!