How to Keep Wine Chilled
In order to fully enjoy a bottle of wine, it needs to be kept at an optimal temperature while being stored. Each wine has its own unique temperature that will allow it to taste its finest once the bottle is finally opened. Using a wine cooler to store or chill your wine before serving is an easy way to maintain these preferred wine temperatures.
Wine coolers come in a variety of shapes and sizes and offer a wide range of functions to better store and chill your wines before serving. If you only need to chill one or two bottles of wine prior to serving them, you might want to consider a tabletop cooler. These smaller units are great for the casual wine drinker who is interested in chilling a bottle or two just before serving rather than using a cooler for long term storage. These tabletop coolers work great in warmer climates where it’s more difficult to keep wine at a preferred temperature. There are also portable, handheld wine cooling totes that allow you to carry your bottles of wine to a party, picnic, or any other special event that calls for a perfectly chilled bottle of wine when you arrive. These wine totes can usually hold from one to three bottle of wine and will chill them for up to three hours at a time.
If you’re looking to store a few bottles of wine, but don’t want to invest in the time and money it takes to own a wine cellar, then you might want to consider a larger wine cooling unit. However, like a wine cellar, a wine cooler can maintain specific temperature and humidity levels in order to keep your stored wine at a constant and desirable condition for the wine to thrive. Some wine coolers have separate storage areas that allow you to store different types of wines in the same cooler. Many of the more advanced wine coolers also have such advanced features that you don’t even need to set the controls because it will do it for you. These coolers can read wine bar codes and will automatically set exact temperature and humidity levels depending on the type of wine you have placed in it. With features like that, storing wine has never been easier.
When choosing the right wine cooler for your wine storage needs, you should consider how many bottles of wine you might want to store at any given time. Once you determine this, you can better determine what size wine cooler you might need. It’s a good rule of thumb to double the number of wine bottles you think you might be wanting to store because you’re more than likely going to add more bottles of wine to it than you originally thought. It’s better to have too big then too small. Consider a wine cooler’s volume, capacity, overall dimensions, the number of shelves, and its energy efficiency when choosing a wine cooler. You might also want to choose a wine cooler that has extra features, such as UV protective glass doors, interior lighting, multiple doors, and digital controls. Good quality wine coolers can range in price from a couple of hundred dollars to a couple of thousand dollars, so make sure the wine cooler you choose serves all of your wine storage needs.
