Where do you store your wine?
Creating a fine wine is painfully difficult and requires
specialist skill, dedication and care. Ruining it in poor storage
is painfully easy. At Corsham Cellars, we are dedicated to ensuring
that wine is stored in nothing but the finest conditions.
Humidity, temperature, air quality, light and
vibration are the key elements that must be tightly controlled
to ensure that your wine matures at its natural rate. Get these
wrong or allow them to fluctuate, and your wine will suffer, losing
both its taste and its value.
It would be virtually impossible for you to recreate the optimum
long-term storage conditions at home. Not only is the average
ambient UK humidity too low and the temperature too variable, but
it would be very difficult to guarantee that the environment around
your wine would not fluctuate. Your home also contains potential
contaminants that can enter the bottle and taint your wine. For
example, you should never store your wine near fruit, vegetables,
cheese or anything else that is capable of fermenting or, indeed,
near anything that is highly noxious.
Even storing your wine in a typical warehouse directly, or
through your wine merchant, comes with certain risks that need to
be considered, because it could affect the value of your wine.
Consistency is one of the most important factors to consider.
Fluctuation in temperature or humidity, for even a short period of
time, can have an effect on the maturation process, harming your
wine. Over ground facilities are subjected to vibrations due to
local traffic, lorries and the heavy machinery they use in their
day-to-day running of their operations. Due to a shortage of space,
many warehouses stack their cases on racking and, the higher up
your wine goes, the more likely it is to be affected by vibration.
Humidity is very difficult and costly to master and, when
environmental controls fail, such facilities will quickly revert to
UK ambient conditions, which are not conducive to the natural
maturation of your wine.
Cert Octavian's Corsham Cellars is located 100 feet below the
hills of Wiltshire, encased in solid Bath stone. Its location gives
our cellars a naturally balanced environment for the storage of
fine wine - here, perfect temperature is a constant, and humidity
is controlled at the optimum level. It is also a facility where
natural light is totally eliminated, where vibration is
non-existent and fresh air quality is maintained at all
times.
To find out more about the world's finest underground storage
facility for fine wine, please contact Corsham Cellars'
dedicated care team.
Call Octavian Vaults
on 01225 818714