Conservation of wine

Conservation of wine and wine cellar :

Can we keep the wine at home? If you do not have a cellar, you should at least isolate the cylinders.
Some wines need not be retained.

A wine closet

Not a wine cabinet. Find a cupboard against a wall north. Stack it with your bottle or your boxes. Put a cover on it. In these conditions, you can keep each bottle a few months.
To keep some wines you can make a wine cellar, or buy a wine cabinet.

Build a wine cellar

If you want to build or install a wine cellar, here are the specifications. Good storage conditions for aging wines include: a dark, vibration-free (no subway) and not a fuel odor!

Most the basement is dry, most plugs will deteriorate quickly and pass the air, which will spoil the wine. Humidity rising long and often below 60% would pose risks to conservation than a decade. It is also said that it is better to replace the plugs every twelve years.

Shelves

Use shelves. They can lay the bottles horizontally so that the plugs do not deteriorate.
There can be too much moisture for the labels. The layout of the cave must avoid plywood or cardboard to be waterlogged.
The storage can be done in simple pipe clay courts. Alternatively, one can optimize the layout.

Storage temperature for wines

The temperature changes must be gradual. It is a priority. A temperature difference between day and night is particularly harmful. So the wine cellar should be insulated.
Good conservation requires a relative freshness. Basically, a red will perhaps been at 25 ° C (77 ° F) maximum, a dry white, perhaps not.
The conservation of red can take 5 years to 18 ° C maximum and 15 years at 15 ° C (60 ° F) maximum. The conservation of a natural wine or a dry white wine may last 5 years at 12 ° C maximum and 15 to 10 ° C (50 ° F) maximum. The softness is more tolerant.
At higher temperatures, you need luck. You can also equip a cooling unit, preferably an air conditioner that reject the heat outside.
How many bottles should you keep? Remember to buy the wine to suit your needs: balancing a wine cellar. Ask yourself how many times keep a wine.