I know somehting similar has been suggested before in regards to wine stored in cellars. I'd like to re-suggest it. Storing wine in wine racks in cellars should improve the quality of the wine. It is totally against all wine convention to store it indefinately in an open topped 10 litre bucket. There should be some incentive to use wine racks. I have read sabinati also suggest that wine racks should be larger. Also a good idea. Especially when you consider that the rack itself comes up the hearthlings chest/neck. If this was real life I could store up to 30 bottles in that much space.
In summary: Wine should be stored in wine bottles. Wine racks should hold more bottles and the quality of the wine should increase with time. Maybe by a percentage, maybe a set number of points, maybe indefinately....thats up for discussion.