This is a collaborative post: Would you like to equip your luxury kitchen with a wine cooler? The most common brands in the wine cooler market are BODEGA43, Liebherr and Siemens. If you are looking for advice, we are at your service with good advice. Because depending on the composition of your household, your budget, wishes, preferences and available space, we can make the best choice together. Discover our beautiful collection of wine cabinets!
How does a wine cooler work?
If you want to orient yourself well on the choice of a wine cabinet, here are a number of points that you could consider:
The air circulation in the wine cabinet is important because the humidity level must be maintained properly. As a result, the corks do not dry out, so that no oxygen can get to the moisture. Advanced wine cabinets, purely aimed at maturing wines, often have even more climate control functions integrated, such as a carbon filter. The filter system ensures that the air in the cabinet remains fresh and that any unpleasant odors have no effect on the quality of your wines.
The door is also an important part to maintain a good climate within the cabinet. A good wine fridge has tinted insulating glass so that harmful UV light does not stand a chance.
Vibrations are not good for wine quality. The parts in the wine cabinet must therefore work vibration-free. When purchasing a wine fridge, pay attention to the consumption of the appliance. A model that uses less energy also uses less of its cooling element and therefore vibrates less.
What’s The Best Storage Temperature for Wine?
Philip Thompson from Expert Wine Storage recommends storing red wine at no more than 18°C, and for no longer than 10 years. Champagne on the other hand can be stored for up to 20 years at the right temperatures (between 5°C and 8°C). He also recommends storing white wine between 7°C and 11°C.
What capacity do you need?
The smallest models can hold 12 bottles, while large ones can hold more than 200 bottles. It is important to pay attention to the minimum and maximum ambient temperature in which the climate cabinet can be placed, for example if you do not want to install your wine climate cabinet in your kitchen but rather have it installed in your garage.
Would you like to buy a built in wine cooler in your kitchen?
Then do not use a thermoelectric wine climate cabinet because it is not suitable for installation and must not be placed on a heat source (for example a radiator or another refrigerator) or in the sunlight. Provide a free space of 10 centimetres all around for good ventilation. What you need is a wine cooler equipped with a compressor.
Wine fridge with 1 or dual zones?
In our collection of Winecooler Shop we distinguish two different types of wine cabinets. You mainly store wines in a wine storage cabinet. A wine cooler, also known as a wine cooler, ensures that your wine is at the right temperature to drink.
Every wine has its own optimal serving temperature. White wine is served colder than red wine, for example. That is why many wine refrigerators have two temperature zones. Or, like the more expensive models, multiple temperature zones.