An alternative option may be the purchase of a wine cabinet choosing between the various fashion and capacity available the cabinet will provide for diversified internal temperatures for any kind of wine’s best storage and service (among the best on the market, several models are commercialized by Eurocave and also Samsung realized a specifically designed small wine cabinet). Where a specifically designed place is not available to set up our cellar, we should carve out some space in the room that best represent what has been stated as far. The formerly suggested cellar’s isolation, not only will be useful to optimize temperature and humidity, but it will also mitigate any eventual vibration caused by noise. During its conservation, these vibrations will galvanize any wine’s evolution, making such process faster than what it would be if the same wine was kept still.
Noise generates vibrations, vibrations mean shaking, hence movement and its consequent precipitation. Last factor that we shall consider in order to preserve wine in the best possible conditions is the noise. Air-conditioners, while working to optimize temperature, they will also dehumidify the cellar. Conditions will be optimal with a percentage of humidity ranging among 55% and 75%. On the other side, if the air inside the cellar is too dry, the cork could desiccate and temperature could change more suddenly. If humidity is too high, it could cause the proliferation of rots on the upper exterior part of the crock, right beneath the cap and also the damaging, still caused by rots, of the wine’s label (for this latter case it is an effective solution to wrap the bottles with some plastic liner). Such expedient is not only useful for attenuating the damages from rapid thermal variation, but also for the air-conditioning expenditure restraint that it allows.Īnother factor that determines quality and modality of wine’s storage condition is the percentage of humidity inside the wine cellar. The cellar’s thermal isolation is achievable lining the walls with thermo-isolating polystyrene panels (other isolating materials may work as well). Setting intensity, adjusting duration and frequency for the cooling cycle using timer sockets and/or the equipment’s integrated thermostat, it is possible to reach and keep stable the ideal prefixed temperature. In order to optimize the cellar temperature, it is really effective, even if costly, the use of indoors air conditioners-dehumidifiers. A stable temperature, even as high as 20/22 ☌, is less detrimental than a sudden seasonal variation from 12 to 24 degrees. The abrupt temperature changes (rise or drop), indeed, trigger premature precipitations or evolutions of bottled wine. What is almost more important than air temperature is the thermal inertia inside the cellar, the not sudden, progressive indoor heath variation during the course of the seasons. Excessively high temperatures provoke an acceleration of the ageing process, whereas cool temperatures defer, temporally delay the degradation processes that undermine the organic matter. The ideal temperature for a cellar is between 10 and 18 ☌, precisely about 12☌. Organizing the cellar, indeed, obscurity shall be granted in the room or designed site.Īir temperature is the second element that defines a bottled wine’s timing for evolution and development. Comparing a wine exposed to light for 6 months to that same wine stored in the dark, it will reveal a much more developed chromatic load, as a much less integer and fragrant aroma and taste. A cellar’s beauty will be enhancement for its wines’ value: extra formal magnificence added to extra substantial integrity.įive factors should be optimized in order to grant wine the best storage conditions in a cellar.įirst of all, total and complete protection from the light: wine must be kept in the dark since light activates and accelerates the processes of development and oxidation. Provided with a place to store and conserve wine, anybody will devote to such place his best attentions with regard to the furniture disposition and care, to the cleanliness, tidiness and maintenance.
No matter how small, it is wine’s headquarter, it is a place of love, it’ the place where to linger on looking, organizing, feeling, it’s where such passion will raise and evolve. A cellar is, for all wine enthusiasts, their passion’s harbouring place. A cellar s not just any wine’s resting place.
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