Wine cellar is a storage room for keeping wine in bottles or barrels. It can even be stored in plastic containers or in carboys. Normally wine cellars will be located underground. The purpose of wine cellar is to protect wine from damaging by providing it the required darkness and constant temperature. By nature, wine is a highly perishable food product. Over exposure to light, heat and temperature variations will spoil all types of wine.

The ideal temperature for the wine to be stored safely is 45 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit. 55 degree Fahrenheit is said to be the ideal temperature for storing wine for both short term and long term use. If stored accordingly, the quality of wine will be improved. For the better storage of wine, both residential and commercial wines cellars should be actively cooled by insulating the wine cellar. Most of the residential wine cellars making home made wine do not take care for controlling the humidity in the cellar. Many use naturally cool basement area of houses as wine cellars. The advantage of these types of passively cooled natural wine cellars is that the making of these cellars does not involve any expense. However these kinds of wine cellars are not ideal for long term storage of wine.

Normally a wine cellar rack consists of wine cellar rack, wine cellar standing and wine cellar cooling system. More or like they function like a refrigerator and the walls and ceiling of wine cellar will be normally be protected by using vapor barriers. Concrete floors also are not ideal for keeping wine safely. Normally the concrete floors of wine cellars will be sealed using water based sealants.

Humidity as well as temperature variation is not good for storing wines. In order to avoid the problems that arise out of humidity and temperature variations, the interior wall of wine cellars will normally be insulated. Doors and windows of wine cellars should also be weather stripped and made air tight to keep constant cooling level in the wine cellar.

When it comes to the light source in a wine cellar, it is always advisable to use a low voltage track lighting system in wine cellar. This is to avoid over heating of the wine cellar as even minor temperature variations can have an impact on the quality of the wine stored in the cellar. The wood used in the cellar should be stained with water based covering.

Another important accessory of wine is wine stopper. Normally the materials used to make wine stoppers are metal and plastic. These wine bottle stoppers come in different colours and models. Wine stoppers are used to keep the opened wine bottle air tight to keep the left over wine in the bottle. The main function of wine bottle stopper is to protect the wine in the bottle from air contamination. All wine bottle stoppers may not be able to keep the wine bottle air tight and it is advisable to go for a vacuum bottle stopper system to preserve the wine in the bottle without spoiling.

Wine racks are available in the market in different colours and styles. Find one that suits your home décor. Wine racks are available in different models like wall mounded, hanging, freestanding and counter top.