Taking The Wine Bar Experience Home With You
In the past you could expect to see people drinking wines at family dinners, special occasion, weddings and other types of events. Wine was thought to belong to the privileged classes who were supposed to know the ins and outs of wine appreciation. This has now completely changed and these days in various places around the world you can see many people enjoying wine at wine bars.
Unlike the wine bars of yesteryear where the wine server (like a bartender) would look like his was the only opinion on wines that mattered, today it is the customers who make the choice of what they want to drink. There is still plenty of room for lower priced wines, but a growing number of people are ready and willing to pay more for better quality wine.
Many of the patrons of wine bars are in their 20s to mid-30s. And these patrons are much more knowledgeable about the various kinds of wine and the subtleties of each type’s flavors. In addition these people are not afraid to drink new varieties of wine. This does not mean that they will just drink any type of wine. With this better-informed customer base, wine bars must be conscious not only of price, but bottles presented must also look palatable.
These new wine connoisseurs have been educating themselves on how to taste a fine wine. While this knowledge is not that vast there is practical experience to back the ideas up. This means that the patrons of wine bars will look to see if their wine is a good color and they will sniff the wine to get the first impression of the wine. While few will claim to be an expert in these wine bars there are many who can tell if they are drinking a Chardonnay or Riesling.
To cater for these discerning wine lovers wine bars have revamped their look and they now sport a good selection of wines from various countries that produce good quality wines. Expensive wines that few of us could afford to open sit side-by-side with less pricey but still very respectable bottles. There will be a selection of red wines and white wines, sparkling wines and sweet wines. In short you can expect to see many known and new varieties of wines at these wine bars.
As wine bars have increased in popularity, wine bar patrons have naturally begun to look for ways to take that experience home with them. This means that more or less average people are now beginning to collect and store wine in ways that used to be the exclusive purview of professional establishments or “connoisseurs” or professional collectors. A “small” collection can grow to a hundred bottles or more in almost no time. And this can lead to a difficulty: how do you store and display a collection of that size in the limited space available in most houses and apartments.
Fortunately, the Danby DWC166BLSRH, a 166-bottle dual zone executive wine cellar offers the perfect solution for the aficionado with a mid-sized collection of wines that need to be cared for. This unit features dual temperature zones, independently regulated, which is ideal if you need to store both red and white wines at their individual perfect temperatures. Any bottle can be retrieved easily thanks to the cherry-wood stained shelves which slide out gently and easily. The DWC166BLSRH features “Cool Blue” LED track lighting that illuminates the interior without generating the wine-damaging heat that standard bulbs put out. Both the shelves and the tinted tempered glass door (which can be locked) are trimmed in stainless steel, complementing any kitchen decor.
So while it looks like the trend toward increasing popularity of wine bars will not go away any time soon, those who enjoy wine bars now have options for taking the wine bar experience home with them with the Danby DWC166BLSRH.
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