Anyone passionate about wine usually starts to collect it and as their wine collection grows they must begin looking for a place to store a wine collection.
A cupboard can readily be converted into a mini wine cellar to store a growing wine collection.
Before you begin building your mini wine closet consider the position of the closet in relation to the rest of the house or apartment.
Avoid converting a closet located against an outside wall into a wine cellar. The outside walls of your abode can be subject to wide fluctuations in temperature from season to season. If at all possible, choose an internal closet where the temperature is likely to remain more constant.
The degree and the speed of any change in temperature are critical elements in successfully storing and aging wine. A gradual change of a few degrees between from winter to summer won’t matter. A similar change each day will harm your wines by ageing them too rapidly.
The most important rule when you are storing your wine is to avoid large temperature fluctuations. You’ll notice damage of this type immediately from the stickiness that will often form around the capsule. Over time, the continued expansion then contraction of the wine will damage the integrity of the cork. It’s just like having the cork removed and replaced every day. When this happens, very small quantities of wine may be pushed out along the edge of the cork allowing air to seep back in. Once air comes into contact with your wine the process of oxidation begins and your wine will be ruined.
At 55ºF to 58ºF the wine will age slowly, enabling it to develop fully as intended by the winemaker. Higher temperatures will age wine more rapidly and cooler temperatures will slow down the ageing process. The damage done to your wine will be irreversible if it is stored at temperatures over 82ºF even for a month.
Maybe the hardest part of building a wine cellar closet is finding other locations to store what is already in the closet!! Do not hesitate now … remove all the present contents (give away / auction / move them) and begin with an empty closet!
Adequate wine racks may be purchased quite inexpensively from hardware stores, online retailers or storage specialty shops and you’ll have a simple but very effective mini wine cellar.
Wine rack designs vary greatly in bottle density; price variations have more to do with the aesthetic appeal of the racks than their efficiency.
Individual racks makes it easy to select bottles. If you place racks against only one wall of the closet there may still be floor or shelf space available for wines that you purchase by the case.
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