Wine storage: Basic one should know

Author: winestorage | Posted: 24.04.2012

If you are looking for the specifications for any kind of wine storage facility, you may come across many options that maintain your wine fresh for a longer time! It is simply stated that, wines should be stored in appropriate temperature, so keep your precious wines in proper ambience. Ambience plays a major role in not only deciding what type of wine storage to purchase.

Ensure that the wine storage you choose suits all your needs. Whenever you are about to purchase wine cellars, ask below questions to yourself:

- Do they provide proper temperature and humidity control?

- Do they offer security or protection for your wines?

- Do they provide any insurance for wine units or cellars?

- Are there any special features or traits attached with wine units?

Be sure about wine storage company you choose must offer different packages according to the sizes of your wine collection. Some may provide you custom built wine units. Four major factors you should keep in mind are:

- Consistency of temperature: Keep temperature between 55 and 59 degrees Fahrenheit. This allows your wines to be fresh. If you store wine bottles in high temperature, it will be at an increased rate of aging.

- Appropriate humidity: most of the wines are kept in humid temperature. If wine cellars are too dry then a cork can break up and wines spoil. On the other hand if wine cellars are too humid, then again wines get ruined by mildew.

- Keep wines in dark space: Lights can break down flavors of wines and leave fewer aromas. So keep them in dark space is advisable.

- Horizontal units: Wine storage should have horizontal units. So that wine cork prevents wines from being dry.

Whether you are a restaurant owner, investor or a collector, if you are buying wine storage for the first time, you must consider your needs first, according to your requirements. If you are not visiting a wine storage provider physically, you can explore various options online. You will be provided with all information in detail about all types of wine storages. Your wine storages should be secured with a solid stainless steel latch and fitted with barrel lock! Moreover, regular monitor of wine storages is also important, so that your wines do not get spoiled or cause any fluctuation.

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