Corner Wine Racks

Keeping wine in a corner is an excellent idea -- you will bump into it less, which helps to keep the sediments in the wine from getting stirred up and affecting the taste of the wine (usually poorly). Here are some good choices available from the big retailers.



Tall and Skinny Corner Wine Racks

Which means taller than four feet, and narrower than 10 inches. A lot of wine shelves also fall into this category, like the Wine Cellar Redwood 5 Shelf Triangular Wine Rack, that is 72 inches high and 8.75 inches wide and deep. Its currently $173 with free shipping from JustWineRacks.com. You will have to secure it to the wall, and frankly any of the tall skinny shelves need to be attached to the wall (using proper anchors, please), or there's too much risk your rack will topple over and smash your wine collection.

For something that's still tall (72 inches -- a full six feet) but much wider at 25 inches wide and deep, look to the Designer Curved Corner Wine Rack Finish: Dark Stained Premium Redwood from Amazon.com. This holds a whopping 76 bottles, so if you really want to stock up, or have a variety of wines at hand in case a party is "just around the corner" (please forgive the pun... I couldn't help myself), this may fit the bill. You'll have to save up, though -- it costs $399.

Corner Wine Racks 25 inches or wider

These setups are more squat, and thus less likely to tip over. Some of them hold enough bottles so that the weight of them alone makes tipping unlikely. A good example of this is the Wine Cellar Solutions Curved Corner Wine Rack, which is available from both JustWineRacks.com and Amazon.com. The curved corner wine rack costs $183 and holds 44 bottles. If it were my rack, though, I'd have it hold just 40 wne racks, leaving the top shelf empty. That's because this rack "secures" the bottles from rolling not with full-length vertical pieces of wood, but with wood bumpers (like speed bumps) that are nailed to the bottom rung that supports the bottles themselves. On the lower shelves, that may be OK (though I can not tell you this is the most secure wine rack I've seen), but in my household all it would take was one cat jumping up on the top shelf to knock one of those top four bottles off. Besides, at the height this rack is at (45 inches high) it is a natural counter height, and I bet $20 you'll want to put a solid piece of wood on top of it so you can set things down on the top, if only while you are examining your wine inventory and doing the careful and delicious work of deciding which bottle to open.

So if we're going to want to put a piece of wood on top of this squat corner wine rack, let's just buy one that has the top shelf built that way. Incredibly, NOTHING fits that description. You have to go look at "wine cabinets" if you want a top... all the classically designed wine storage racks are open on the top.