You will arrive at a time in your life as a wine enthusiast when you take a leap and decide that you are ready to purchase more than just one bottle of a wine you have taken a liking to. It happens to each of us – we get bitten by the wine bug and we want to store a few extra bottles for another day.
And there is excellent reason for this sentiment. We find a wine we like, and when we go back to buy another bottle we are advised that it is sold out and the winery no longer has any stock .
Wineries make a limited quantity of good quality wine and even smaller quantities of great wines. It is an excellent idea that when you unearth wines that you are passionate about that you find a suitable wine cellar in which to cellar them for future consumption – one that keeps the wine in top condition while the wines mature under controlled conditions.
Storing wine correctly in a temperature and humidity controlled environment is essential in order to assist the graceful aging process of the wines being stored and one of the best cellars I have come across recently is a BYO (Build your Own) Wine Cellar – either a single cabinet version that can hold 160 bottles, or a dual cabinet version that is capable of holding 320 bottles of wine.
Is capacity for 320 bottles enough storage capacity for your needs??Well unless you are throwing huge dinner parties every other week with 30-50 people arriving at a sitting, believe me when I say this is plenty of storage capacity.
A few years back I built a wine cellar in my house that could hold nearly 3000 bottles of wine. I proceeded to fill up the wine cellar as my passion for wine increased however it reached a point where there was no way I could consume all the wine I had acquired and unfortunately some of my wines spoilt before I could drink them. I later sold my house and the next owner did exactly the same thing I did! You don’t need wine storage capacity for 3000 bottles of wine is the point that I am making! A BYO deluxe wine cellar can be bought inexpensively and assembled within your current living space with little or no hassle.
First things are to consider the amount of wine you are realistically going to cellar, then check your living space for a suitable location probably in your living room, dining room, or your den – and no renovations are required.
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