When deciding on how to make your at home wine cellar, there are a few things you need to consider:
Do you have a room or space for this? Usually, the lowest level of the house would hold the cellar, like a basement or closet.
How big is the space you’ve chosen? This is dependent on how many shelves or how many bottles you would like to accommodate.
Can you regulate temperature? Vapour barriers and insulation considerations will need to be looked at, because a hot room will ruin your hard-earned collection. The cooling system you select is probably the most important aspect.
A wine collection is not only about the wine itself. Some collect rare or strange bottles; others collect wine from different countries in the world, while most collect different varietals or vintages of wine.
There are also many different ways to organise your wine cellar:
- You can arrange them by year, which is a popular model
- Some people arrange first by brand and then by year
- It can also be arranged by varietal or vintage and then year
- Alternatively, divide into red (including rose), white and sparkling or champagne and then by year or varietal/vintage
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