Conditions For A Home Wine Cellar

Wine cellars fall under two primary types. You have the commercial type of wine cellar as used by restaurants and wine merchants, and there is the domestic wine cellar typically built by a wine lover or wine buff in order to store their own collection of wine. Let us look at wine cellars for use at home. Many people mistakenly think of wine cellars and wine refrigerators in the same manner. In reality, generally, a wine cellar is appreciably larger than a wine fridge and of substantially greater storage capacity and can routinely incorporate a cooling unit and storage spaces designed for keeping and serving wines. Both types of wine cellars tend to be handled in the same manner.

Right Temperature To Store Wine

Wine cellar management should first and foremost be aware of the temperature range essential for storing and ageing wines. For long-term wine storage it is commonly acknowledged that a temperature of 50 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit is essential to produce best storage.

Humidity

The role of humidity is also critical to successful wine storage. A dry atmosphere will quickly shrink a cork seal. An all natural cork is compressed and forced in to the wine bottle creating a one hundred percent natural seal.

Low humidity will shrink the cork, thereby allowing air in to the bottle causing oxidation of the wine. Reduced humidity and a faulty cork may also contribute to wine leaking out from the bottle producing ullage. Screw capped wine bottles don’t need humidity when being stored.

Excessive humidity won’t harm the wine but can lead to the labels going moldy. The optimal humidity for any wine storage is 70%, on the other hand anywhere between 50-80% is acceptable. In some geographic regions these environments may be found in underground cellars and caverns. If you are not in such a part of the world then you will want to buy some form of wine cellar cooling unit to maintain a constant temperature.

Better storage of your wine translates to an improved taste in the glass, and it’s hence very beneficial that you only use the best and most successful techniques of storage when considering storing your collection of wine. If a insulated wine cellar is not practical for you the best wine storage option is a refrigerated wine cooler, and there are plenty of brands to select from, ensuring that regardless of the particular kind of wine that you’ve got or even the number of wine bottles you’ll want to store you will be able to find the ideal wine cellar solution.

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