BYO Deluxe Wine Cellar
At some point along the road to your wine education, when you will identify wines you enjoy and you will begin to acquire them in quantities of 4 bottles or more. It strikes each of us – we get bitten by the wine bug and we want to keep some extra bottles for another occasion.
And there is excellent reason for this sentiment. We discover a wine we enjoy, and when we return to purchase another bottle we find that the wine is sold out and the winery has no more stock .
Wineries produce a limited quantity of good quality wine and even smaller quantities of great wines. It is an excellent idea that when you discover 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 prime condition while the wines age under controlled conditions.
To make sure you can keep your wine in primo condition while being cellared you need to take into consideration the humidity and temperature in order to ensure the aging process for the wines being cellared is constant and free from significant changes. The best cellar I have found that meets this goal is a BYO (Build your Own) Wine Cellar – either a single cabinet model that can hold 160 bottles, or a dual cabinet version that is capable of holding 320 bottles of wine.
160 bottles? 320 bottles? Is that enough storage capacity for wine? Storage capacity of up to 320 bottles is definitely enough storage space, unless you are throwing dinner parties with huge numbers of guests every other week.
A few years back I built a wine cellar in my house that could hold nearly 3000 bottles of wine. I began to fill up the wine cellar as my passion for wine increased however it reached a point where it was not possible that I could consume all the wine I had acquired and unfortunately a number of my wines spoilt before I could consume them. I later sold my house and the next owner did exactly the same thing I did! The point I am making is you don’t require wine storage for thousands of bottles of wine! A BYO deluxe wine cellar can be bought inexpensively and assembled within your current living space with little or no hassle.
My recommendation for wine storage is first to consider your living environment, ensuring that a wine cellar can be accommodated within your home without doing major renovations, and secondly, that you consider realistically the amount of wine you are going to want to store.
