Wine cellar to best preserve wines: tips and advice for buying the most suitable model for the home. Where to place it, maintenance. Photo.
Have one cellar in the house is the dream of every lover and good connoisseur of wines: uncorking a well-preserved bottle allows you to taste the original flavor of the selected grapes, for a dinner with friends or even when, to an important business meeting, you bring a fine wine and fears that bad storage could be harmful.
Furthermore, a guided tour in our basement turns into a prestigious moment and an opportunity to show our guests a very special environment of the house.
You do not always have the opportunity and space to create a cellar under the house and if you do not have the right environment to create a real cellar, you can always opt for the purchase of a cellar refrigerator.
Read also: How to make a wine cellar: the complete guide
This type usually uses two areas for the perfect conservation of wines, white or red, new or vintage, for meals or desserts, and champagnes.
On the market there are various types and prices have become much more accessible and affordable for everyone.
The refrigerator cellars allow to manage the optimal storage temperatures, but are also able to ensure the humidity rate that does not dry the corks and at the same time avoid the formation of mold, with a range of the rate between 50% and 80 %.
Refrigerated cellars: types
The refrigerated cellars that are on the market can be classified according to the main characteristics, namely:
- Capacity, that is the maximum number of bottles that can be placed inside
- Mono-zone or bi-zone, the presence or absence of two zones with different temperatures
- Interior material: in wood or metal
- Recessed or from the ground
Energy consumption of the refrigerated cellar
The problem electricity consumption it should not be underestimated at all, as the need to maintain the ideal internal temperature conditions means that the wine cellar is an ergivorous appliance. Indicatively, it can be indicated in about 300/350 euros per year.
You may be interested in: How to organize the cellar
How to limit? Certainly placing the cellar in a cooler area of the house allows the engines to work much less and therefore have much less impact on the energy bill.
Domestic refrigerated cellar: advantages
Having a collection of fine wines is certainly not something for all portfolios, yet being able to design thepurchase of a model for home it can be a excellent investment, allowing the bottles purchased over the years to be kept in the best conditions, without necessarily having to proceed to its consumption immediately.
Here is briefly what the advantages that such an appliance can ensure:
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- light protection
- constant temperature
- ideal humidity
- bottles in a horizontal position
- contamination with other odors and foods is avoided.
Wine cellar: prices
We conclude by addressing the issue of prices. On the market there are wineries for all tastes and financial resources. Considering as the main choice element, the maximum quantity of bottles that can be accommodated, a template suitable for approx 20/22 bottles (single temperature) can be purchased with approx € 450.
For a model from capacity doubled, therefore about 40/45 bottles, the price may rise to € 680. Definitely more professional models, ideal for restaurants or for true wine lovers, with double temperature and suitable for about 100 bottles, are on sale starting from € 1000.
Wine cellar: photos and images
Wine cellar to best preserve wines: tips and advice for buying the most suitable model for the home. Where to place it, maintenance. Photo.
Have one cellar in the house is the dream of every lover and good connoisseur of wines: uncorking a well-preserved bottle allows you to taste the original flavor of the selected grapes, for a dinner with friends or even when, to an important business meeting, you bring a fine wine and fears that bad storage could be harmful.
Furthermore, a guided tour in our basement turns into a prestigious moment and an opportunity to show our guests a very special environment of the house.
You do not always have the opportunity and space to create a cellar under the house and if you do not have the right environment to create a real cellar, you can always opt for the purchase of a cellar refrigerator.
Read also: How to make a wine cellar: the complete guide
This type usually uses two areas for the perfect conservation of wines, white or red, new or vintage, for meals or desserts, and champagnes.
On the market there are various types and prices have become much more accessible and affordable for everyone.
The refrigerator cellars allow to manage the optimal storage temperatures, but are also able to ensure the humidity rate that does not dry the corks and at the same time avoid the formation of mold, with a range of the rate between 50% and 80 %.
Refrigerated cellars: types
The refrigerated cellars that are on the market can be classified according to the main characteristics, namely:
- Capacity, that is the maximum number of bottles that can be placed inside
- Mono-zone or bi-zone, the presence or absence of two zones with different temperatures
- Interior material: in wood or metal
- Recessed or from the ground
Energy consumption of the refrigerated cellar
The problem electricity consumption it should not be underestimated at all, as the need to maintain the ideal internal temperature conditions means that the wine cellar is an ergivorous appliance. Indicatively, it can be indicated in about 300/350 euros per year.
You may be interested in: How to organize the cellar
How to limit? Certainly placing the cellar in a cooler area of the house allows the engines to work much less and therefore have much less impact on the energy bill.
Domestic refrigerated cellar: advantages
Having a collection of fine wines is certainly not something for all portfolios, yet being able to design thepurchase of a model for home it can be a excellent investment, allowing the bottles purchased over the years to be kept in the best conditions, without necessarily having to proceed to its consumption immediately.
Here is briefly what the advantages that such an appliance can ensure:
Do you want design advice on how to furnish? Join the group
- light protection
- constant temperature
- ideal humidity
- bottles in a horizontal position
- contamination with other odors and foods is avoided.
Wine cellar: prices
We conclude by addressing the issue of prices. On the market there are wineries for all tastes and financial resources. Considering as the main choice element, the maximum quantity of bottles that can be accommodated, a template suitable for approx 20/22 bottles (single temperature) can be purchased with approx € 450.
For a model from capacity doubled, therefore about 40/45 bottles, the price may rise to € 680. Definitely more professional models, ideal for restaurants or for true wine lovers, with double temperature and suitable for about 100 bottles, are on sale starting from € 1000.
