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Home Cellar
One of the most satisfying ways of storing wine is to store it at home in a temperature and humidity controlled container. The Winevestor can monitor and show the wines, and inevitably occasionally dip into the investment for personal consumption. It is the most convenient manner of storage; the wine is always at hand and no appointments have to be made to obtain it. There are three main types of home cellar for different collection sizes.
Wine Refrigerator
 Wine Refrigerators can store between 8 and 50 bottles. They keep the wine at the correct temperature and humidity. They are often built into bars or kitchens. For short periods (a month or two), wines are fine at room temperature, as long as the temperature does not fluctuate too much or they are exposed to direct sunlight. A drinking regime where the wine to drink is put in a rack and the wines for longer storage are put in the wine refrigerator works very well.
Wine refrigerators cost between $200 and $600 and are easy to install and blend into a living space.
Wine Cabinet/Wine Room
 A wine cabinet looks like a large wardrobe and has a cooling unit built into it. A good sized collection (80 to 1,000 bottles) can be housed. They range in price from $800 to $4,000.
At this level, the cabinet is still mobile. If the owner moves the collection can be packaged, the wine cabinet moved to the new house, the wine also moved in a separate temperature controlled vehicle and the cabinet refilled with the collection again in its new setting.
Another advantage is a very low cooling cost/wine bottle. The cabinet is just big enough to store the wine, and the electricity cost is pennies/month.
At the top end of wine cabinets are walk-in units, insulated wine rooms, which can be set up within another room, but are similar in size to a walk-in clothes closet. They can still be dismantled and moved.
 These units can store up to 3,000 bottles, enough for everything but the largest collection. When buying units this big, it is important to think about the need for a backup system. If either the electricity service falters or the cooling system fails, how long is the room going to maintain a reasonable temperature? Backup systems, which will allow the owner to sleep at night, include a generator or a second cooling unit. Usually wine rooms are placed in the basement, where the temperature difference between ambient and optimum wine storage temperature is not great. In this case, unless very unlucky, the insulated wine room can last a long time after a power failure without reaching a wine damaging temperature.
Custom Wine Cellars
There are a couple of drivers that move a Winevestor up to a custom wine cellar. The first is to have a large space where the wine can be stored in pristine conditions, and buyers can be impressed by the provenance. The second is to be a showcase to display the wine to its maximum advantage and to be the center of wine entertaining for family, friends and fellow wine aficionados.
Cost of such an installation can range from $3,000 to as much as the owner wishes to spend. There are many specialist vendors that will provide one-off wine cellars includin |
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