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About Wine Cellar

Wine cellar is essential when starting our wine collection as most of us stay in apartments or houses without a wine cellar facility. Wine cellar sound huge to us as some of us never consider it at all as there isn't many bottles of wine which we store at any one time. Wine cellar come in different forms and sizes. Wine cellar at the wine shop may be as big as room but the domestic one might be just the size of a mini bar fridge that store not more than 12 bottles at any one time. However, both possess the same qualities for wine storage.

The simplest domestic wine cellar usually store around 10 to 120 bottles. this kind of wine cellar is sometime also known as a wine refrigerator. The domestic can also be build in and tailor-made to measure from the size of a cabinet to the size of a room like the one at the neighborhood wine shop. They are usually temperature-controlled whereas those without are more commonly known as a wine cabinet or wine rack.

A wine cellar although an essential is sometimes already regarded as a luxury especially in the urbanized communities. When we take a closer look at the ideal wine storage conditions in the following, we will realized that the wine cellar is merely meeting the conditions of proper wine storage.

Proper wine storage conditions consist of the followings... ...

Correct Temperature... Stillness... Darkness... Moisture... and Odorless

Some wine cellar may not exactly meet the above condition of moisture. As some which like most refrigerator are relatively dry in nature. At the same time, choose one which allow you to switch off the lighting in the cellar when not needed. Some designs that come with a glass door may not allow the switching off as they are meant to display the wine in an attractive way.

However, remember that wine storage are not for displaying or decorative purposes but for the wine to "REST IN PEACE"... ...

Different kinds of wine storages

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