Wine and champagne enthusiasts know perfectly well that the most important thing about wine is storage. There's an art to storing bottles properly, and it deserves a few tips. Whether you're an amateur or a novice, our advice will help you get started.
For lovers of fine wines, a wine cellar is an essential part of any home. As wine and champagne enthusiasts know perfectly well, the most important thing about wine is storage. Storing your bottles properly is an art in itself, and deserves some advice. Whether you're an amateur or a novice, our advice will help you design your bespoke wine cellar.
Before any bespoke furniture designs, start by defining your needs. Define the surface area you need to store your bottles. You're not going to design the same type of wine cellar if you have 10 bottles to store or if you have 100. Similarly for the purpose of your cellar, you're not going to position it in the same place if you choose a cellar for ageing wine and one for bottles to be consumed quickly.
If you choose to make a bespoke cellar to age your bottles in, then the choice of location is probably the most important.
After defining your objectives, you can then choose where you want to install your cellar. In the kitchen, in the cellar or under a staircase, the choice is yours.
We still recommend favouring the basement for bottles to be aged and the kitchen for bottles to be drunk quickly.
At the same time, be careful about the level of humidity in the room, wine doesn't like this, it risks causing the cork to go mouldy and therefore spoiling your finest bottles.
The wine cellar is used to store your bottles of wine and champagne, but above all it contributes to the proper preservation of your fine wines. The best way to store wine is flat, so that the cork is always moist. The temperature of the room is an important factor to take into account. Wine keeps best between 10 and 14°C. If it's too hot, the wine will age too quickly and its quality will be affected. You should also be aware of variations in room temperature. The light in the room is also important - ideally, it should be kept in a dark, blind room.
Wine cellars are great for storing bottles, but they can also be a decorative feature in their own right. It can make a real impact when you invite friends over for dinner.
As always with bespoke solutions, think about optimising the space you have available and create a bottle storage unit that meets all your needs and constraints.
Even feel like displaying your finest bottles on a counter when your friends come over for dinner? Create a tasting area in your wine cellar or a display area or even both if you have the space.
Fit out a wine cellar according to the number of bottles you have; there's no point in configuring a gigantic wine cellar if you only have 5 bottles to store. And conversely, it would be a mistake not to plan enough if you have a hundred or so bottles.
Thanks to made-to-measure, you can design a unique wine cellar, just as you dreamed. Choose open or closed storage, create small spaces for a single bottle or larger ones to store entire cases of wine. The aim is to optimise space and space so that each of your bottles remains well preserved.
Start from existing models or give free rein to your imagination.
Design your bespoke wine cellar today.
