Wine & the effects of light

Fluorescent lighting?

The cover sheets on light fixtures absorbs 100% UVA/UVB up to 380 nm; and >90% of remaining UVA.

So, those lighting fixture sheets pretty much eliminate your concern. However, if you go to a wine shop that is so low rent that it uses uncovered/naked fluorescent bulbs, there may be some UV light bouncing about ruining the wine and giving you skin cancer, cataracts, and brain damage, but the good news is that the glass bottle will absorb 100% of the UVB, but some small amount of UVA may get through…the best way to judge is to check for faded labels.

Also, when you check out, the laser the bar code reader uses to price your wine will ruin the contents, anyway. So, if you allow a store to scan your wine, you’ve wrecked it completely and your worries about fluorescent light damage are rendered moot.

I think you would be better served worrying about storage and shipping temperatures, laser price readers, and making sure the feng shui of your cellar and kitchen are properly arranged, as well as not using any form of metal in your corkscrew, as metal contact with wine with cause metal ions to enter the wine and therefore immediate destroy any flavor that the pricing laser didn’t already destroy.

Glass may remove some UV, but clear glass does not remove light at the blue end of the spectrum, and green glass will also let some through. As the text you quoted correctly says, blue light also causes lightstrike.

Theodora’s advice is good.

See also The (increasing) problem of lightstrike | JancisRobinson.com