The Wine Rack Size Calculator for UK Rooms

Furniture in Fashion has published a sizing report on wine racks in British homes, and its finding is that bottle count is the least useful number in the category. A rack advertised as holding twelve bottles will hold twelve slim Bordeaux bottles and rather fewer champagne or Burgundy shapes, because those are wider, and the aperture of each cell decides the outcome rather than the headline figure. The report works through the four measurements that actually govern the decision: bottle diameter at the shoulder, the depth a rack needs to hold a bottle securely, the height of the space available, and the load the floor or wall has to carry once the rack is full. It also covers the storage conditions that matter in a British house, including why the space beside a cooker or above a radiator is the wrong place for bottles, and how kitchen temperature swings affect wine kept for more than a few weeks....