How to best store your wine investments in top condition

You will reach a time in your wine life when you decide to purchase more than one bottle of a wine that you have taken a liking to.

The bug will strike at some momentin time, and once bitten we are taken on a journey of acquiring more and more of the wine that we enjoy.

And there is good reasoning for this point of view.

How many times have you acquired a bottle of wine then returned to the wine outlet only to find they have run out of stock and the winery itself has sold out of the wine for which you were searching.

Wineries make a limited supply of good quality wine and even less quantities of great wines. It is an excellent idea that when you find wines that you are passionate about that you find a suitable wine cellar cabinet in which to cellar them for future consumption – one that keeps the wine in prime condition while the wines age under controlled conditions.

To be able to keep your wine in top condition while being stored 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 Wine Cellar – either a single cabinet model that can hold 160 bottles, or a double cabinet version that is designed to hold 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 40-50 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.

As my wine knowledge increased so I began acquiring more and more wine in order to stock my huge cellar until it reached the stage that I could not consume the wine fast enough before some wines would spoil through over cellaring.

After selling my house a new owner proceeded to do the exact same thing! The point I am making is you don’t need wine storage for thousands of bottles of wine!

A BYO wood wine cellar is an inexpensive option to purchase and assemble in your own home, providing you with a temperature and humidity controlled wine cellar with more than enough capacity for all your wine cellaring requirements.

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 any renovations, and secondly, that you consider realistically the amount of wine you are going to want to store.