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In Reply to: RE: Wine refrigerators, are they really necessary? posted by jimbill on July 31, 2009 at 09:30:21
...as I understand it, the key is avoiding temperature variations as well as extremes.When the temperature varies the cork expands and contracts, allowing air into the bottle which oxidizes the wine.
The ideal temperature is around 55 F, IIRC.
I've had a 750 bottle capacity wine cooler since 1991 and have had to change the cooling unit once and get it repaired after my move last year. It's in my garage and I keep it at about 60 F.
Before that I built in shelves on the cooler wall of my garage to store the wine, but there was still a good temperature variation.
My cooler is only about 1/2 full now, but I don't know where else I would store a few hundred bottles of wine. The other advantage is being able to keep them organized by type and year and have them accessible.
A friend with a smaller wine cooler uses software to catalogue his wine and has it referenced by a number on the shelf so he can easily locate any of them.
Another friend keeps his wine in cases under his house.
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