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a trophy case for grapes that survived long enough to get expensive.
means A frame or shelving unit designed to hold wine bottles, usually on their sides so the cork stays moist.
from A plain compound of two old words. "Wine" descends from Old English "win," borrowed from Latin "vinum" — the same root that gives us vine, vintage, and vineyard, threading back through wine-drinking cultures of the Mediterranean. "Rack" comes from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German "rec," meaning a framework or bar, related to words for "stretch" or "reach." The pairing is straightforwardly descriptive: a frame for wine, which became its own object once people started keeping enough bottles to need somewhere to lay them down.
- bottle angle
- Sideways keeps cork wet so it won't dry and leak
- oldest stash
- Speyer wine bottle has aged 1,600+ years sealed
- vibration foe
- Shaking disturbs sediment and ruins long aging
- light kills
- UV degrades wine, hence dark cellars and green glass
- status code
- Empty racks signal optimism; full ones signal restraint