Are you wondering what "wine" and "kitchen" have in common? Well, over the past few years, we've had a lot of customers ask us what's the best way to incorporate wine within a kitchen. The way the kitchen is evolving, it is becoming more of a social setting (where people hang out and socialize) as well as a functional setting (for cooking, preparing meals etc...). People are now making their kitchens bigger and also combining their dining room within the walls of the kitchen.
We thought it would be a great idea to post a blog about how you can turn your kitchen into a "wine-ready" kitchen to accommodate for easy socializing and convenient gourmet cooking!
Over the past few years we've received some fabulous pictures
of customers decorating their kitchens with wine racks purchased at
Wine-Wall.com. Not only is this a neat way to add a decorative piece to a room but it also serves 2 purposes. Since most people gather in the kitchen, you are able to create a conversation piece by displaying a neat wine rack and some wines mounted on the wine racks. Many wine racks now mount wines in a way that allows the labels to be displayed (such as our
Wine Tube wine rack) rather than the pigeon hole wine racks which hides the wines. Although these wine racks are functional in a cellar setting, for decorative purposes, wine racks that display the bottle and labels nicely make for a much nicer presentation. Check out our wine racks section on our website (
click here).
Wine-Wall.com takes pride in only selling wine racks that showcase your wines!
The second purpose for ALWAYS having wine in the kitchen is because wines make a great cooking ingredient. I won't go into any recipes (I'm sure Google can help with that!) but will tell you some basics that will turn your mac'n'cheese cooking skills into gourmet chef-like skills!
As I'm sure you've heard in wine reviews, articles and other wine books, wines can be sweet, dry, fruity, nutty and a multitude of other flavors. When cooking consider these flavors and integrate them within the recipe. Instead of putting sugar, try putting a cup of a sweet fruity wine like a Merlot or a Port or a Sherry. One of my favorite recipes is Chicken with Sherry (there's your Google search terms!!) where the sherry is reduced to a syrup like consistency and then glazed on a chicken and roasted. Reductions help intensify the flavors of wine and make great sauces or glazes.
All this being said, you really can't get motivated until you try it and you really won't try it unless a bottle of wine is staring you in the face as you decide what's for dinner tonight or what can I serve my guests coming over!?
So pick a spot in your kitchen, mount a wine rack, fill it with wines and voila! For under $100 bucks you've just become a better cook, an innovative interior decorator and a socialite!
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Usually when we mention the word "custom" to our customers, the next question that follows is "how much will that cost me?". Sure there is a certain nuance with the word custom that is often associated with expensive or costly. But at Wine-Wall.com, our manufacturing process is set up in a way that each wine rack is "custom" made. We simply offer wine racks in the 3 bottle configuration (The Exibit-3) and a 6 bottle configuration (The Exibit-6) simply because these have been the most demanded wine rack size and these 2 configurations can be set up to fit any space from a small space under a cabinet to a complete wine cellar or wine closet.
