I had to do a job at the Radisson Hotel recently and couldn't help noticing their wine rack! I've put one on my Christmas list!

 

What the heck is going on there?? That thing is huge, so is it the job of the circus girl to retrieve the bottles from the top of the wine tower?

 

Yep, she's the barmaid! Apparently she is the only original member of staff left who has been their since the place opened. I guess its quite a niche job - there can't be many bar staff with trapeze skills. I've still not worked out whether the price of the wines is proportional to their height in the tower!

 

That looks like a blatant rip-off of Aureole in Las Vegas. It has the same sort of wine tower and "wine angels" who are suspended on ropes that grab the bottle of wine you want:

"Take, for example, the wine tower. Four stories of stainless steel, glass and plexiglass, it is a wine cellar in reverse, soaring 42 feet over the bar. Clearly the star of the show, it holds -- and strikingly displays -- some 9,000 bottles of wine.

The wine steward going for a bottle of cabernet or Champagne crawls into a harness that is hooked on to hoist on the sides of the tower and is lifted swiftly to the correct level. The harness is equipped with an intercom and up and down controls."

http://www.aureolelv.com

 

Yep, that about sums it up! I'm not surprised that Vegas can top the Stanstead Airport Radisson.

 

You sure it's the wine rack you want ?

 

Come to think of it I don't even drink wine.

 

Looking at those photos makes you want to take a long drink.