Posted on February 8, 2010.
5 Points To Begin your Own Cellar
One of the big joys of wine can choose a bottle of wine of your own cellar, maybe a that you stored for some years, draw the cork and the appreciates with the friends. You can fill with wonder yourself to the changes provoked by the maturity date and, as a bonus, you can praise yourself price paid you and you congratulate on takes a such walked!
Nevertheless, the wine is a thing of never changes and how it directly is stored will affect how quickly and how well it ages!
To store wine is very simple...
It demands a constant temperature, humidity, obscurity, the calm and a ventilated good and cleans the environment.
INSULATION
The first essential element is to create a storage environment that furnishes the basic principles of stable temperature, no light and no vibration.
In the general terms 4" (100 mm) of polystyra¨ne is the equivalent one to 3 ft (1 meter) of ground. Therefore if you try to decide between one above the construction of ground and an underground cave, you must be prepared to dig deeply for the last one.
Your placard, your internal space or your exterior construction must well be shaded, must well be isolated and with the minimum of movement of air in and out.
TEMPERATURE
The objective is to furnish stored wines with a constant temperature of 50°F and 59°F (10°C 15°C.
The seasonal changes in the temperature will not harm your wine, although your BIGGER fluctuations than a degree by the week should be avoided.
The wines exposed to the more than 77°F temperatures (25° C) are in the danger engraves quick deterioration.
The wines stored in less than the ideal conditions will age to completely different speeds to these envisaged one by the wine growers when they offer the times of suggested emmagasinage. A thermometer of hygro will furnish you with precise the news as for the ranges of temperature and humidity in your cellar.
A good constructs above the cellar of ground or an underground well dug cellar will demand the minimum of regulation of the additional temperature although your climate or the position of your cellar can necessitate the usage of a device of cooling that will furnish the stability of complete temperature.
An alternate other is a temperature an office of controlled wine. Certain of these can delay to 800 bottles but note that some capacity of bottle of the suggested manufacturers can cheat and the shelves can be smaller than you demand. The bottles of champagne are bigger than the bottles of Riesling!
Consideration is assembled wine as your better pad of cooling. A high density of bottles of wine will reduce fluctuations of temperature of wine.
Consider keeping your wines in the long term in an ease of professional storage if your cellar cannot be in accordance with the ranges of optimum temperature.
HUMIDITE
A dry atmosphere is enemy of the seal of natural cork. A natural cork is squeezed and is forced in the bottle as a 100% natural seal.
Low humidity combined with a defective cork has for result the wine does go out of the bottle (increasing ullage) and the air transferring to naturally the bottle.
Moderate humidity is important to keep the cork in the good elastic condition and prevents shrinking it. The screw put a ceiling on bottles do not demand humidity.
Excessive humidity will not harm the wine but can cause the labels to go molded. Ideal humidity for your cellar is 70%, nevertheless anywhere between 5080% is acceptable.
OBSCURITE
The light will age predmaturedment a bottle of wine. The clear bottles are the most susceptible ones to this problem, but the ultraviolet light will penetrate the colored even dark glass.
The ultraviolet light will damage wine while causing the organic otherwise stable composite degradation, especially the tanins found in the wine. These organic composites contribute to the flavoring, the perfume and the wine structure. Without them your wine would appear flat and thin.
If the exposition to the ultraviolet light has for result of the unfavorable and irreversible changes in your wine.
Etinceler the wines demand the additional care as they are more sensitive to light than the other wines.
TO PUT IT DOWN BELOW!
Store your wine clogs horizontally if the wine is in the contact with the cork. This will keep the cork wet itself. If the dry cork and shrinks will leave it air obtains to your wine. To store it with the label orienting towards the top. This will help by three ways:
You easily can see that the wine is. You do not need to disturb the bottle to see that you entered your cellar.
The sediment will form on the opposed side to the label and the easier fact to see.
The label is less probable to undergo damages. If you store wine as an investment, a damaged label will reduce the value.
Follow the points above and you will be on the way to create a cellar where your wine will age to the perfection and a cellar that will be the jealousy of your friends!
