When it comes to collecting wine, collecting wine bottles, or really any other type of collection for that matter, one of the first things that you are going to want to have figured out is your budget. Step one in the process of collecting wine is to set your wine budget.

Wine collecting is a hobby that can quickly and easily get out of your hands if you are not careful. In your personal quest to find more great wines, you could potentially lose sight over just how much money you are spending in the process. If you want to keep yourself from dipping into rainy day funds and savings accounts, it would be sensible for you to begin your wine collecting hobby by setting a workable wine budget.

It is important for you to understand exactly how much of your working capital you are going to be able to allocate for the purpose of wine purchases, and then once you have this wine budget laid out you are going to want to stick to it as closely as you possibly can. Think about this, for example: At an average price of $10 dollars per bottle, the average case cost for wine is going to be $120. If you are going to be buying a case worth of wine every single month, then you will be spending a little less than $1,500 dollars every year. This may not seem like much at all, but how many of us are only spending $10 for every bottle of wine that we buy?

The reason why $10 was chosen for this example is to make the math seem a little easier, with the nice rounding up to $1,500 per month. At $20 dollars for each bottle, and a case purchased every single month, the cost goes to $3,000 per year. At $30 dollars per bottle of wine, and a purchase of one case per month, the cost per year vaults up to $6,000 easily.

At this point, you should get the picture pretty well.

Here is something else that you are going to want to think about: If you are buying a case every month, then you are buying 12 cases worth of wine in a year. In total, then, you are buying 144 bottles of wine in the span of 365 days. In the span of 365 days, drinking 144 bottles of wine means that you are going to drink a bottle of wine every third day, which equates approximately two bottles every week. For some people, this is a lot of wine. For other people, this may be less wine than they normally consume from day to day.

At the end of the day, the thing that is important above all else is how much money you are actually capable of affording to spend on this particular past time.

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Originally posted 2009-11-17 03:18:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Drinking a glass of wine is one of those luxuries that can quickly grow into an obsession with wine bottles, wine varieties and even wine labels. The more that you get into wine collecting, the more you are going to want to document all of the wine experiences that you have. Some people keep a journal marking all of their wine experiences, while other people collect wine labels so that they have something interesting and visually appealing to mark all of their wine-drinking history.

So what is wine label art collecting all about? It is a simple method for documenting all of the unique vintages that you have tried. Once you have finished drinking the bottle, what you will typically do is remove the wine bottle label and slip it into your wine journal. There are a lot of journals designed for just this purpose including the Nomad Wine Journal, which provides spaces for you to put your wine label art, and spaces to write about the characteristics of the wine itself including its flavor and aroma.

The first step in collecting wine label art is to remove the label from the bottle of wine. The steps to doing this successfully with the wine label art in one piece begins by figuring out exactly how the label has been adhered to the wine bottle. European style wines typically use glue for this purpose. Other areas tend to prefer adhesives that are similar to what you find on the average sticker. There are different techniques involved in removing each of these for the best possible results.

For a label that has been glued on, fill the bottle using hot water. Place the bottle inside a container allowing the water to reach above the label, such as a water pitcher. Fill the water pitcher with hot water as well and allow it to soak for five minutes. When the label begins to move around freely, it is ready to be peeled away. Peel it slowly and carefully. You should be able to place it wet in your wine label art journal while it is still somewhat wet, allowing the glue to simply re-adhere to the page of the journal.

When you are dealing with any other adhesive label, the process is similar but much simpler. You would fill the wine bottle with hot water as before, but simply allow it to sit for a period of five minutes. The label should begin to peel away on its own. You should not need to place the wine bottle in a container of hot water. The adhesive should still be sticky once removed, and you should be able to adhere it directly into your wine label art journal.

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Originally posted 2009-10-31 03:53:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Most people are familiar with collecting wine, and even collecting wine bottles, but one of the types of collections that some people are unaware of is collecting wine bottle corks. Wine bottle corks are often just as unique as the bottles that they are sealing, and people that consider them selves to be wine aficionados can appreciate the importance of wine bottle corks because they are responsible for keeping the wine in good condition, ensuring that it ages properly and has the perfect taste and texture. If you appreciate everything that wine collecting and wine bottle collecting have to offer, then why not consider also collecting wine bottle corks?

Cork has a number of unique physical properties in its natural form, and they make this material a truly ideal one to use for sealing wine bottles. Natural cork has actually been the wine bottle seal of choice ever since Roman times. Cork has a cell structure that is unique and honeycomb in nature. Every sell is sealed and filled with air, and no two cells are connected to one another. Cork has an elastic texture which means that it can be compressed and still returns to its original value upon being released.

What makes this happen with wine bottle corks is the structure of the cells in the cork. As the cork becomes compressed, the air in each of the cells becomes compressed. Then when the pressure is removed, the cork naturally expands back into its original shape and volume.

Cork is also waterproof, which is another quality that comes from the cell structure of the natural material. The individual cells are sealed and this means that they are not connected to one another. There is no chance of capillary action or any wicking when it comes to cork materials.

Cork has individual cells that are filled up with air, and these cells are very extremely poor conductors when it comes to vibration and heat. What this means is that cork has been ideal for a long time for sound proofing and flooring purposes. This may not matter when it comes to wine bottle corks, but wine bottle corks that aren’t collected are often turned into other things such as flooring, gaskets and floats.

Another benefit of cork is that it is relatively light weight in nature. It has a low amount of density because the various cells are filled up with air. Cork has been used for a myriad of unique purposes including fishing floats just as long as it has been used as wine bottle corks.

Another benefit of wine bottle corks is the high friction surface, which means that the cork can be compressed, inserted into the bottle, can regain shape and fill the bottle, and will therefore stay in place in the bottle. When the cork is cut, millions of the cells are ruptured, and this is responsible for forming rough domes capable of sealing onto smooth surfaces like the neck of a glass wine bottle.

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Originally posted 2009-10-26 03:49:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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