May 25 2010
How to best store your wine investments in top condition
At some stage while discovering more about wine, you will find wines you enjoy and you will want to purchase them in volumes of 2-4 bottles or more.
The bug will strike at some point in time, and once bitten we are taken down a path of purchasing more and more of the wine that we love.

And there is good reasoning for this sentiment.
How often have you purchased a bottle of wine then revisited the wine outlet only to be advised they have run out of stock and the winery itself has sold out of the wine for which you were searching.
Wineries make a finite quantity of good quality wine and even smaller quantities of great wines. So when you discover a wine you enjoy it makes good sense to acquire 3-6 extra bottles of the wine and then suitably store them in a wine cellar cabinet so that they maintain their quality, and can age gracefully while waiting to be drunk.
To make sure you can keep your wine in top condition while being cellared you need to manage 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 version 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?
Well unless you are throwing huge dinner parties every other weekend 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.
As my wine knowledge increased I started acquiring more and more wine in order to fill up my huge cellar until it reached the point that I could not consume the wine fast enough before some wines would spoil through over cellaring.
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 need cellaring capacity for thousands of bottles of wine!
A BYO wood wine cellar is an inexpensive option to buy 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 needs.
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.
