In the house it's perfectly alright to keep the red wines and white wines together, stored in your RakaStaka wine racks, but when guests are coming, to take the strain off your bursting fridge, why not use a RakaStaka wine rack outdoors for the white wines and rose wines that should be served really cold?
The RakaStaka wine rack can withstand freezing temperatures and won't be damaged by the elements, so you can use the cold of winter to chill your favourite drinks.
Of course, as well as the RakaStaka wine rack, you can also use the RakaStaka Beer Bottle racks and RakaStaka Cans rack outside too.
You will be amazed at how much valuable fridge space you can free up in winter, simply by using the RakaStaka wine rack, beer rack and can rack outside in your freezing cold garden, or on the back steps. The RakaStaka wine rack will work just perfectly on any flat, strong, outdoor surface.
Enjoy your drinks just as cold as they should be, with the convenience of the RakaStaka wine rack.
Have a great New Year and revel in the cold weather!!
]]>For example, you can use the RakaStaka wine racks together, to make a multi-layered stack of wine bottles for wine storage in a cupboard or in an alcove. Alternatively, a great idea is to have the wine bottle stack as a unique display - on shelves, kitchen work surfaces or on the sideboard in the dining room.
You can also put the RakaStaka wine racks side by side to have your wine bottles in a row, safe and secure, with no chance of them rolling and falling off, or rolling into and knocking down other items
Most wine racks are either fixed structures or less compact than the RakaStaka wine rack and so don't allow you the flexible options that RakaStaka does. You might like to take one RakaStaka wine rack and put it in the fridge to have your white and rose wines chilling down for that special dinner party, whilst the rest of your RakaStaka wine racks are keeping the red wines stored elsewhere.
Other wine racks are great if you have unlimited space and you don't mind having an empty wine rack taking up floor space or cupboard space when your stocks are depleted, but with Rakastaka the wine racks fit into each other when not in use thereby freeing up your valuable space.
Another advantage of the RakaStaka wine rack is that you can store more wine bottles with it, in a given space, than you can with any other type of wine rack.
The versatility of the RakaStaka wine rack is without compare because you can make wine storage areas pretty much anywhere you want to around the home. You can lift a whole stack of wine and move it into the garden for a BBQ party, or you could take just one of the wine rack layers and put it in the refrigerator to chill.
RakaStaka wine racks also boast another unique feature - they are printed with a descriptive flavour guide to some of the world's most popular wine varietals.
The RakaStaka wine rack is such a simple and elegant invention. Designed to be small yet strong in order to create portable yet solid stacks, or rows, of wine bottles in the most space-saving ways possible - and such brilliant value too!
There are two RakaStaka wine racks in each pack.
]]>This went on for over 1,000 years, through the Grecian wine trade until the Romans grew to power. To begin with, the Romans drank little wine, but in later years they became heavy drinkers which led to wine festivals. There was also a strong connection between wine and religion too.
When their empire collapsed they embraced Christianity and early missionaries carried the vine into northern Europe. They needed sacramental wines, so sensibly wherever they built a church or abbey they planted a vineyard!
The Romans, amongst other things, developed glass blowing. This was found to be the perfect medium for storing wine as it did not affect the wine and had the advantage of clearly showing what was inside - white, rose, red. It was still difficult to store these early glass wine bottles in significant quantities because they could not be laid down in a wine rack.
The invention of wine racks could not occur until glass production became more advanced.
The trouble was glass at the time was hand-blown and bottles varied in size and shape so it would be impossible to make a standardised wine rack. Consumers never knew exactly how much wine they were getting in these early wine bottles; too easy to cheat!
For centuries it was illegal to sell wine in bottles because of this problem. This led to consumers bringing their own containers and measuring the amount they required for themselves.
In the fullness of time, coloured glass in various shapes and sizes came into existence. These were originally onion shaped as they were easy to blow, but it was found that longer, elongated shapes were better for storing the wine on its side, "laying down", which helped it age properly and kept the cork wet. For centuries it was illegal to sell wine in bottles because of this problem. This led to consumers bringing their own containers and measuring the amount they required for themselves.
Now the wine rack could be invented to allow easy storage of these wine bottles (just like the RakaStaka wine rack today). Wine racks were developed to fit the cellars of the winemakers so that the maximum number of bottles could be laid down.
The great advantage of this universally embraced shape was its adaptability to even the most confined situations. By stacking one bottle on top of the other every inch of space could be utilized, not only in the Grand Chateaux of Burgundy, Bordeaux and the cellars of New World winemakers but in modest households where space is at a premium. Nowhere is this more evident than in today's domestic fridges. Few cater for wine, other than the odd bottle, in the way they do for everyday staples like milk and juices. The revolutionary RakaStaka wine rack was created with this in mind. When space is at a premium, the RakaStaka wine racks prove themselves to be the world's most compact and versatile wine rack system.
The RakaStaka wine racks fill the gap between chateaux and domestic wine storage. The basic RakaStaka wine rack unit can be used anywhere around the home - in union with other RakaStaka wine racks to build a safe and secure wine storage area, or as a single wine rack in the refrigerator, to chill down the white and rose wines.
]]>RakaStaka featured on series 2 of BBC's Dragons Den, which aired on 15 November 2005.
The Dragons offered Stef £100,000 for 40% of his business. They thought it was a "superb concept" and "an ideal gift".
Stef bravely turned down their offer. He continues to promote RakaStaka worldwide.
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