Turn A Closet Into A Mini Wine Cellar
When you are passionate about wine you start to collect it … and when you begin collecting it you need a place to store it.
A closet can easily be turned into a mini wine cellar to store your growing wine collection.
Before you start your wine cellar construction it is important to pay attention to the position of the cupboard in relation to the rest of the house.
Try to avoid converting a closet situated against an outside wall into a wine cellar. The outer walls of your abode can be subject to wide fluctuations in temperature from season to season. Choose an internal closet where your wine can be stored in a more stable atmosphere.
The degree and the speed of any change in temperature are critical elements in successfully storing and aging wine. The gradual change of a just a few degrees between summer and winter doesn’t matter. A similar change each day will hurt your wines and age them too quickly.
A major rule when storing wine is to avoid large (or quick) temperature changes. You’ll be aware of this damage straight away from the sticky deposit that often forms around the capsule. Over a period of time the continual contraction and expansion of the wine will damage the integrity of the cork. It’s just like having the cork removed and replaced every day. When this happens, minute quantities of wine may be pushed out along the edge of the cork (between the cork and the bottle neck) allowing air to seep back in. Your wine will be ruined once air comes in contact with your wine and the irreversible process of oxidation begins.
At 55º to 58ºF the wine will age as intended, enabling it to fully develop. Higher temperatures will age wine more rapidly and cooler temperatures will slow the ageing process. Irreversible damage will occur if your wine is stored at a temperature above 82ºF for a month or more.
The most difficult part of creating a wine cellar in a closet can be finding other places to store the original contents of the closet! Don’t worry about being ruthless … remove all the present contents (give away / auction / move them) and start with an empty closet!
Cheap wine racks can be purchased from a hardware store, online retailer or storage shop and you’ll have a simple but very effective mini wine cellar.
Wine rack designs vary in bottle density; price variations have more to do with appearance than efficiency.
Individual racking is usually considered the most convenient way of storing bottles. If you place racks against only one wall of the closet you may still have floor or shelf space available for wines that you purchase by the case.
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