Do You Stand Up Sediment Heavy Wines Before Opening?

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Thanks for the comments. Seeing 85% keeping a bottle upright ahead of pouring makes me feel better. That said, will now try to change my wyas.

Filling in the picture…I got a new Eurocave. I went with this model because they have a “tasting shelf” that allows you to store wines vertically. This shelf crushes the capacity of the Eurocave, but I would be pairing Eurocave with an offsite, so I didn’t need max capacity at home.

https://www.wineenthusiast.com/eurocave-rolling-tasting-shelf-performance-comfort-series-sapele

In the interim, I did see the William Kelley comments re using a wine cradle. And a couple bottles of vertically stored wine had me feeling I wasted a little (more sediment clouded wine at the end of the pour than I expected). So I am only keeping one Tasting Shelf (for presentation purposes/coravined sweets) rather than to store wine. And I reset the remaining horizontal shelves a little wider which would allow propping them up for a slight incline. Looking at it now, I figure this is a minor 15 degree incline. I don’t know if this is enough degrees to make a difference versus pure horizontal… but would certainly make it easier to transition to a cradle from a 0 degree start (figure the cradle is 30 degrees or so?) .

I’ve always been an upright storer. Any recs on cradles / baskets?

I picked up one cradle off Etsy. Found Etsy to have the best variety. But I haven’t seen any great modern/functional cradles until…

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I’ve had this bookmarked for 2 months now. It’s so beautiful. I’d buy these as a gift for people to put their most precious babies in it (as in, real babies freshly delivered). But I won’t spend $400 on a cradle. Maybe we can berserker Buy 1,000 of these at a time for $75 a pop? I just emailed them asking for 500 @ $50. Maybe someone should add something like to their glassware line.

Kinda depends on the fill, if it’s pretty high then I will angle the bottle a little up out of the cradle when I open it. Not enough to shake the sediment at the bottom of the bottle. I’m talking maybe an extra 10 degrees up. But most of the time it’s not an issue.

When you prep your wine/have it in cradle, are you tilting them a full 45 degrees? As I mentioned above, I’ve created a setup where I can incline my wines 15 degrees in storage. But is 15 degrees worth it, or is it way too minor to make any sort of difference?

My friend has his eurocave set up like yours, where there’s a small incline at the top shelf so he can use it to prep wine. He said it works great.

the idea of the cradle from horizontal is that the fine sediment has all fallen along the horizontal bottom of the wine bottle. Once you tilt it gently into a basket, the sediment that’s already fallen down will slowly slide down into one little corner. So you really don’t need that much time in basket for it to work. The longer it’s in the basket, the more solidified that sediment is at the very bottom corner. I’ve had one that I left in a basket for about 3 months and for a 30+ year old wine I almost got clear wine all the way to the very very bottom as all the gunk had solidified into one chunk.