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Originally Posted by murd0c
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I would not have put a wine rack next to the stove - wine is very sensitive to temperature and you can literally take a great bottle of wine and turn it into garbage in a surprisingly short time by storing it in temperatures too warm.
The average house temperature is around 20C and that's basically the max you would ever want to store wine at - hence why most people try to keep it in a cellar or somewhere cooler. The additional heat rising from your stove could easily raise it another 5-10 degrees which doesn't sound like much but is way into "damage your wine" territory.
Mark