Your Expert Guide to Wine Accessories, Storage & Gifts in the UK
Here’s a confession most furniture articles won’t make: nobody actually needs a wine sideboard and credenza. You could store your Rioja in a cardboard box under the stairs and it would taste exactly the same. But if you’ve ever hosted a dinner party where the good glasses lived in three different cupboards and the wine … Read more
Here’s a scene that plays out in more British households than anyone admits at dinner parties: you finally build a decent wine collection, someone’s teenager (or, let’s be honest, someone’s dad) “borrows” a bottle you were saving for a birthday, and suddenly the phrase “we need a lock on that” gets said out loud for … Read more
Somewhere between “I’ll just leave the bottles on the kitchen counter” and “I need a proper wine cellar” sits the quiet hero of British home storage: the wooden wine cabinet with doors. It’s the piece of furniture nobody talks about at dinner parties, right up until someone asks where you keep your Rioja and you … Read more
There’s a particular kind of chaos that happens when wine has no proper home. Bottles roll around at the bottom of a kitchen cupboard, wedge themselves behind the cereal boxes, or line up precariously along the edge of a worktop like they’re queuing for a bus that never comes. Given how sensitive wine is to … Read more