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05/5/2014 at 9:12am
 Location: North East Wales
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About to collect our new motorhome.
There is a wine rack in it alongside the cooker and we are unsure if it is safe to store bottles in it when on the move.

Anyone any experiences?


05/5/2014 at 10:11am
 Location: Leicester
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Considerable experience of wine, less of mobile wine racks. Common sense would suggest that if the bottles are horizontal, and can slide out, you would be ill-advised to store them there whilst on the move. More for show than go perhaps? My own wine rack is a couple of six-bottle boxes wedged behind the passenger seat. Perfick.


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05/5/2014 at 10:38am
 Location: Northern Ireland
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Wine on the move isn't a great idea anyway! Needs a couple of days to settle after being shaken about.
And a wine rack alongside a cooker seems to be odd planning ... wine needs a steady ambient temperature ... is why cellars are used.
Mind you, I'm always perplexed at the number of new kitchen designs that incorporate wine rack sections ... worst place in the house to store your wine is the kitchen as it probably sees the highest range of temperature changes.


05/5/2014 at 2:20pm
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If the wine rack in your van is just the same type of horizontal rack as found at home then it is only for use when parked, not while driving.


05/5/2014 at 8:49pm
 Location: Devon
 Outfit: Dreamer(Rapido) D.55 select Plus
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Our last van and current one both have so-called 'wine racks'. Both designs were similar, a small cupboard at floor level holding 4 bottles of wine in a vertical position ... worked very well for us!

I love red wine but not sure I am sophisticated enough for a blind taste test to show if the wine has been shaken or stirred! Even at home doesn't usually have time to settle much following a journey from supermarket! However we do normally wait long enough for bottle to reach our definition of room temperature!

P.s Same rack also held 4 bottles of a decent whisky after a holiday in Scotland ..

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06/5/2014 at 11:33pm
 Location: Northern Ireland
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Shaken, not Stirred is absolutely incorrect .... Ian Flemming got that wrong ... should be Stirred, not Shaken!


10/5/2014 at 4:33pm
 Location: Llandeilo Wales
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Who has wine long enough to warrant a rack?

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10/5/2014 at 6:15pm
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I removed the wine rack and glass door and put the tv in it. I am not a wine drinker, Like the tv better.

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Its not a hangover, its wine flu!


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just dont go there.


10/5/2014 at 9:21pm
 Location: Near Stand Road Chesterfield
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11/5/2014 at 10:39am
 Location: South Yoks
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I agree with Keith :-)

 



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11/5/2014 at 12:55pm
 Location: Devon
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James - lo1 (hic!)


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11/5/2014 at 3:52pm
 Location: North East Wales
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Update,
Thanks for all the replies.
We decided to solve the conundrum and buy a winebox.
When on site we put a bottle of oil in the rack,forgot about it and drove home with no drama.



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