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. While many people still enjoy less expensive wines, more and more people are prepared to pay more for more refined wines.
Many of the patrons of wine bars are in their 20s to mid-30s. And they are better informed as to the varieties of wines available and how each type is supposed to taste. 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. Wine presented to savvy wine bar patrons must not only be affordable, but must also look palatable.
These new wine connoisseurs have been educating themselves on how to taste a fine wine. If they are not exactly experts, they do know much more about assessing the quality of a wine than what used to be the norm. 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. Even if they’re not professionals, most wine bar patrons are knowledgeable enough to tell if they are drinking a Chardonnay or a 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. You will be able to find expensive wines alongside inexpensive but still good quality wines. 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 become more popular, so too has the idea that the wine bar experience can and should also be enjoyed at home. 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 very small collection can very quickly become a mid-size collection of 100 to 150 bottles or more.. And this creates a problem as to how to properly store and possibly display that many bottles in an average sized apartment or home.
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. Inside, the DWC166BLSRH uses “Cool Blue” LED lighting, providing sufficient interior light and an attractive effect without the wasted energy and wine-damaging heat of incandescent bulbs. 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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