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Wine Cellar Lighting

By Brian on Sunday, January 15th, 2012 | No Comments

By Russell Neal

Phantom linear strips make ideal wine cellar lights. Due to both their flexibility and concealment, they can be positioned in a variety of positions that create both direct and indirect cove lighting effects. In smaller wine cellars, they can function as the primary light source, and in larger cellars where people gather for a quiet getaway into a better, alternate reality, linear strips can be used to create ambient wine cellar lighting that contributes a vital element to romance, mystique, and relaxation.

Because many wine cellars are intended for viewing rather than visitation, lighting them with standard overhead accent lighting fixtures can often detract from the presentation of the wine bottles and the aesthetic of ornamental wine racks. Wine cellar lighting in this type of environment must completely hide its source and magnify the bottles, labels, and racks without giving away the source of illumination. This can be difficult in narrow confines that often resemble a long closet more than what most of us think of when we visualize a room. In such quarters, Phantom linear strips can be mounted on the rear interior of the doorway of the wine cellar. Light shines back into the room from the concealed strips, creating a luminance that appears to grow out of the corridor and intensify as it reaches the bottles.

In larger wine cellars, lighting takes on a more subtle role as an accent to atmosphere. Wine cabinets and wine racks stand along the walls, normally surrounding a table or two where people can gather and enjoy wine and cheese and quiet conversation. Most wine cellars of this nature, though spacious in floor space, nevertheless have low ceilings. Flexible cove lighting strips can be mounted on top of racks and cabinets, shining light upward along the back wall and reflecting it off the ceiling. This is similar to valance and cove lighting, but it has a much more powerful effect due to the space limitations of the low ceiling. The light appears to climb the wall and wrap itself around the ceiling, fading toward the center in a gentle glow.

Lighting wine racks themselves can also be done with similar effect using linear strips. Because Phantom makes every LED energy saving lighting strip custom to the dimensions of either a horizontal or vertical mounting surface, strips can be fitted to the interior of the rack to emphasize the label and surround the bottle with an aura of light. Or, wine cellar lighting strips can be concealed behind the racks along the rear surface of the wood, shining the light forward for a silhouette effect. Because of this remarkable flexibility and precise matching of fixture size to mounting dimensions, the possibilities for wine cellar lighting with Phantom custom lighting strips are as many and varied as wine cellars themselves.

For lamping options, we recommend LED 2800K festoon lamps as the most ideal source of both direct and indirect wine cellar lighting. 2800K festoons produce the warmest possible colour temperature available in LED, and they are a viable replacement for incandescent and xenon light sources. It is extremely important to use LED strip lighting in any wine cellar if at all possible. The absence of UV radiation and infrared heat renders the light harmless to the wine itself and prevents interference with any refrigeration systems that may be in place. The distribution of light produced by the 2800K LED festoon is indistinguishable from that of previous, more primitive technologies, and is ideal for creating an atmosphere of warmth, colour, and comfort. This is also the most energy efficient form of wine cellar in cabinet lighting and the best option for those who wish to leave the lights on for most, if not all, of the time.

Due to the highly original and custom nature of wine cellars, lighting in these environments has to reflect a level of equivalent customization and adaptability to some of the most eclectic cabinetry and interior architecture found in refined and elegant settings. Because our Phantom LED cabinet lights are all manufactured custom to specification orders, the best way to order these lights is to contact our main office and send us blueprints of your wine cellar (if available), along with a series of photographs that will help us build your lighting strips specific to the dimensions, floor plan, ceiling height, racks, and cabinetry of your cellar.

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How To Give A Gift Of Wine

By Brian on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 | No Comments

By Caroline Silverstone

Wine makes an excellent gift. It is timeless, classic and tasteful. It works for almost any occasion and is, perhaps, the perfect adult gift. You will surely find many occasions to give wine as a gift. Of course, you may need a little guidance in figuring out how to give wine as a gift.

Wine is a popular gift for many reasons. Here are some to think about:

- It is easy to give.

- It can fit into almost any budget.

- It has universal appeal.

Let’s look at these for a minute to help you understand why you should give the gift of wine.

It Is Easy To Give

Wine is easy to give because it comes pre-packaged. It is a compact gift, too. People will usually look at wine as a nice gift, too. They realize thought went into it and they appreciate it. Additionally, it is a usable gift, so you know it won’t just be another gift that the recipient can not use.

It Can Fit Into Almost Any Budget

There are so many options of wine you can choose that you can buy a bottle that fits right into your budget. You can buy some really nice wine without breaking the bank. As long as you a little abut wine you should be able to find one that is not too expensive for you.

It Has Universal Appeal.

The majority of people will be quite happy with wine as a gift. There are so many types of wine that choosing one that is right for the occasion and the recipient should not be difficult, either.

Now that you know why to choose wine as a gift. Here are some ideas of how to choose good wine gifts:

- Choose wine from the recipient favorite restaurant. This will give you a good chance of choosing one they like to drink if you do not already know their preference.

- Buy their favorite wine if you know what it is.

- By a wine with a unique name or a name that will mean something to the recipient.

- Choose a wine from a country the recipient has visited or is interested in.

- Buy a collectable wine.

- Choose a wine with a unique bottle.

- Design a custom label for the wine bottle.

- Buy a wine from a special year.

To give wine as a gift you can try some of these creative ideas instead of simply handing the bottle over:

- Add a bow to the bottle.

- Put it in a decorative sleeve.

- Make it a part of a nice gift basket of complimentary cheeses.

- Make a gift set and include a couple beautiful wine glasses.

- Include some reservations to a wine tasting with the bottle.

You should give wine as a gift in a creative manner. Make it something to remember instead of just another bottle of wine. You should put thought into it and really choose the wine carefully and then present it in a meaningful way. Wine makes a perfect gift, but it can be made so much better when it is given with a little thought behind it.

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Wine Is More Than Just Another Alcoholic Beverage

By Brian on Monday, January 9th, 2012 | No Comments

By David Faulkner

Wine reviews, wine ratings, and wine scores – how do every one of of this influence the market? What is added or missing while a winery is reviewed in the media? Is scoring just an additional promotion plan, or is there some concrete worth to ratings? How do you offer purposeful scores to something as prejudiced as wine? The progression of rating wine begins with its visual facade. Dissimilar to beer which has styles that are anticipated to be gloomy, wine is believed to be lucid. The excellent news is, with the progress in expertise, it’s awfully odd to come across a wine that is overcast. Above and beyond clarity, you also want to take perceive of the color. Clasp the wine up next to a white backdrop or look at a light through the wine. The color can be a signal of the mellowness of the wine.

You better know What Your Wine Is All About:

The cost of a bottle of wine and the wine’s ratings, are key to choosing a wine that is right for you. In today’s wine marketplace there is abundance of great wines accessible for around only $15, and some good wines sell for significantly less. You won’t have to pay out a lot of money to research with assorted wines. A good wine merchant will be able to give you bounty of suggestions for wines with good ratings in your price range. Robert Parker is a well-known wine reviewer and publisher of The Wine Advocate. Robert Parker’s magazine is a well-established resource for wine clients globally. To produce ratings, Parker spends three months every year tasting in vineyards. He dedicates the other nine months of the year exclusively to tasting and scripting his experiances. The ratings, which are based on a 50-100 point superiority scale, reflect his self-determining, very decisive look at wine.

Fiano is a brand that has occasionally been referred to as “pesto in a bottle”, a bit flashy but as perfect a descriptor as any for the dewy, pine resin characters it sometimes displays. The Montesole report is a very well entry point into this exclusive wine in that those forestry elements are tamed devoid of surrendering its type. There’s still sufficient of the coarseness features of wines from the Colli Irpini. Scents of lime and flowers; flavors of vaguely tropical fruits and well-defined pear, apple, and lemon-lime flavors assisted by the crisp acidity you usually find in vini Campanese. There’s enough attitude in Fiano to make it more than a summer quaffer, it has the body to hold its own with grilled seafood and vegetables, or paired with mozzarella di bufalo drizzled with basil oil.

Best Quality Wine Glasses:

The earliest surviving English wine glasses are diamond-engraved glasses that were produced near the end of the sixteenth-century by Verzelini. Plain straight stems gained popularity around 1740, with air twist stems being introduced about the same time. Ten years later a twist incised on the exterior of the stem became popular. Quality crystal wine glasses were being produced in France near the end of the eighteenth-century. Cordial glasses in the eighteenth-century had bowls of the same shapes that were typical for wine glasses, but they were much smaller, holding about one ounce.

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Wine Bottling And Syphoning

By Brian on Sunday, December 25th, 2011 | No Comments

By James Wilson

The ideal utensils to use for wine making and boiling ingredients & juices are those of good quality enamel. Those sold under a brand name are most reliable. The utensils must not be chipped.

It is almost impossible to pour clear wine from one bottle to another without stirring up the lees. Because of this, it is a good plan, to siphon off the clear wine when rebottling it.

Using about a yard and a half of surgical rubber tubing or plastic tubing, siphoning is a very simple operation. First, put the bottles or jars of wine on a table and the empty bottles on a stool or box on the floor. Next, put one end of the tubing in the first bottle of wine and suck the other end of the tube until the wine comes; pinch the tube at your lips and – holding on tight – put this end in the empty bottle and then let the wine flow. As the level of the wine falls, lower the tube into it, being careful not to let it touch the lees. When nearly all of the wine has been transferred, pinch the tube at the neck of both bottles, put one end into the next bottle and allow the wine to flow again.

In this way a constant flow is maintained and you have bottles of crystal-clear wine. The sediment from each bottle may be put together; this will clear in time to leave a little more wine.

Most of you will already have heard of one or other home-made wine and will have decided which to make. For those who have not yet decided, preference for a ‘port* or ‘whisky’ may be the deciding factor and this must rest with yourselves.

I would advise you only in this: make, say, a gallon or a half-gallon of a variety of wines and then decide which you prefer over a period of time. I have whittled my own preference down to nine different wines which I brew regularly according to season, leaving the dried fruit for the time when fresh fruit is not available and when roots – potatoes, etc. – are too fresh for wine-making purposes.

NOTE:

Different recipes will call for slightly different approaches, but it must be remembered that whatever else has to be done, the brew must be kept in a warm place throughout the fermentation period, and that the process after fourteen days* fermentation in the tub is the same with all recipes.

Now select your recipe and go ahead with your wine-making, bearing in mind all that I have warned you about.

About the Author: James Wilson owns & operates http://www.e-homewinemaking.com, a site providing wine-making tips, tricks and techniques. If you’re interested in making your own wine, visit http://www.e-homewinemaking.com today and sign up for the FREE wine-making mini-course!

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