What are the proper conditions to store my wine?
The main concerns to storing your wine are temperature, temperature stability, humidity, ventilation, and darkness. • Wine is best stored between 40-65 °F, optimally between 55-57 °F. Even more important is temperature stability. The temperature in your storage area shouldn’t fluctuate more than 5 °F in a year. This keeps oxygen from being drawn into your bottle, upsetting the freshness or even spoiling your wine. Maintaining this sort of stability can be difficult to achieve, so simply do the best you can for those long-term storage wines. • Also, keep your wine within 50% – 80% humidity. • Finally, you should keep your wine out of sunlight as the light waves can breakdown the more complex particles in your wine. • Packaging your wine in dark bottles (green or brown) will help protect your wine from those light rays.
