The best way to store your wine bottles is in a horizontal position, which is what home wall mount wine racks are designed to handle specifically. By keeping your bottles on wall mount wine racks, you are keeping the corks from drying out. Corks that dry up can allow air to leak in, which can ruin the taste of the wine via oxidation.
Some of the best wall mount wine racks can hold bottles in individual compartments which allow air circulation between the bottles. You will want to keep your bottles stored out of direct light and at a regular temperature of about 55 degrees fahrenheit and a relative humidity of 70%. If you don’t already have your own wine cellar, you can use wall mount wine racks as an affordable alternative for a space saving method of wine storage.
These wine racks can also feature stemware holders so you have an all in one method of storing both your wine bottles and drinkware. You can usually find wall mount wine racks in the affordable price range of $40-$50 as well.
In addition to the metal wall mount variety, you can find other types of materials for wall mount wine racks including wood and plastic. There are also several styles: stackable towers that can be placed on your floor and expanded to meet your wine storage needs as well as ones that neatly sit against the wall instead of directly on it. Wall mount wine racks made from wood or metal give you even more options to find a storage piece that matches your decor and gives you the right storage facility for your home. You can get adventurous with a DIY self-assembly wine rack or simply seek out a custom wall mount wine rack to get the right match of wine rack for your home, your budget and your wine storage needs.
It’s also very easy for a DIY’er to make one. All you need are:
- a wall
- a wooden plank, or metal shelf
- some triangle mounts
- and a few screws
From here it’s rather easy to see how you can assemble your own wall mount wine rack without dishing out hundreds of a dollars of a “top of the line model”. You can very well assemble your own for a fraction of the cost and it will do just the same job, as long as the bottle are in a correct position and don’t roll off anywhere.
With that in mind, you should be happy with anything you get. Whether you build one yourself or buy a wall mount wine rack you should be good to go. Anything you pick will be the right one.