Part II: how to store my wine at home
Welcome to part II of our series on wine storage, part I explained the general background on where to store the wine. Let us assume that you prefer to store the wines at home, this part is asking how to store the precious bottles the right way.
Private wine storage at home
Despite the fact that wine bottles are sealed tightly, keeping the temperature, humidity level, and amount of light under control is essential. In terms of all three of these conditions, the basement is always a popular choice for wine storage as well as purchasing a decorative, temperature-controlled wine cabinet that can be placed in your dining room.
The big question when it comes to storing the bottles is on how they are sealed. Screwcaps have the advantage of needing less attention than cork sealed bottles as they don’t mind whether the bottle is stored upside down or standing up. You might even leave the screwcap bottles in their original case, standing up, no worries as the screwcap sustains the pressure of more cases placed on top.
With cork sealed bottles you have to be a bit more careful: in order to ensure that the wine corks don’t crack, keep the humidity between 65-75% in the room and place each bottle on its side so that the cork may soak up some of the wine and remain moist.
In addition, the optimal temperature for storage is anything between 12 and 18 degrees Celsius as this will provide a cool atmosphere for your wine to age properly. The main requirement here is that the temperature needs to be consistent, wine doesn’t like the changes in these.
Once you have the proper conditions for your wine, you’ll want to look into a spacious wine rack that will hold a large amount of bottles for your collection. Racks range in a number of different sizes and are capable of holding anywhere from twenty to a few hundred bottles of wine depending on how extensive of a collection you choose to have in stock. Placing more expensive bottles of wine in the back rows is always a great idea in order to help maintain a cool, dark place for the wine to age and will allow your less expensive wines to be accessible to you at a moment’s notice. If you prefer to have your wine storage cabinet conveniently placed in your dining room, there are a number of different styles to choose from that will complement any room design from traditional to modern.
Our next part will explain the advantages of keeping your bottles with a wine storage house.
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Der zweite Teil unserer Serie ueber die optimale Weinlagerung beschaeftigt sich mit der Lagerung zu Hause. Wir geben Tipps zu Lagerung, Temperatur, Luftfeuchtigkeit und mehr. Vorteile bei der Lagerung haben die screwcaps ueber die verkorkten Weine, lesen Sie nach. Viel Spass.
Ihr Michael Brecht
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I’ve been reading a lot lately about how screwcaps are much more efficient for wine, but I wonder if the transition will really surpass the traditional (and perhaps more aesthetically appealing) cork. For now, I use a three-column wooden wine rack I bought online from Vintage Cellars, and I’m looking into investing in one of their wine refrigerators, most likely a Eurocave.