Refrigerator for wine

To enjoy good quality wine, not only the material from which it was made is important, but also the fulfillment of all the basic conditions for its storage. An ideal place to store any wine is an oak barrel, put in a cellar. But how then to store it in an apartment, restaurants or at the firms that sell this product? For this purpose, special refrigerators for wine storage have been developed.

Wine refrigerators are of several types, which depend on the following factors:

1. Sizes:

• mini-refrigerators - for several bottles of wine;
• bedside-cubes - up to 100 pieces;
• wine cabinets - over 500 pieces;
• wine chambers - up to 3500 pcs.

2. Amount of temperature zones:

• single-temperature;
• two-temperature;
• three-temperature;
• multi-temperature (multi-temperature) - in the presence of more than 3 different temperature storage zones.

3. Cooling methods:

• compression;
• thermoelectric ;
• Absorption .

4. By appointment:

• household - wine coolers for home or office;
• Industrial - for production, firms - sellers, restaurants.

5. On registration:

• standard;
• increased comfort;
• elite;
• exclusive.

In addition to standing alone, there are still models of combined domestic refrigerators with a wine cellar and a wine cabinet. Usually it is a two-barrel two-compressor refrigerator, in which at the same time or instead of a freezer is located a wine cabinet or camera. At the same time, the wine cell is located at the bottom, and the freezer is at the top.

How to choose a refrigerator for wine?

In order to follow the recommendations of the sommelier for the storage of wine, in wine cabinets and refrigerators it should be provided:

1. Stillness of bottles - not performed in compression models, but this can be corrected by a good balance of the compressor, soft cushioning, reliable insulation of the shell or the implementation of shelves and pallets for bottles made of wood.
2. Protection from ultraviolet rays - is carried out by darkening (tinting) the glass doors of the refrigerating cabinet.
3. The constant temperature is from 8 ° C to 12 ° C.
4. Maintenance of humidity at the level of 50% - 80%.
5. Circulation of fresh air inside.
6. The horizontal position of the bottle during storage - so that the cork does not dry up and squeeze.

But all the requirements for proper storage are met only in expensive models of luxury wine refrigerators. In normal models, there is often no good air ventilation, humidity control, and sometimes there is vibration, so they are only suitable for a short shelf life of the wine.

To store expensive vintage and collection wines, one should take multi-temperature wine cabinets, in which there is a possibility creating ideal conditions for the ripening of wines of different brands, since there are differences in their storage regimes. In addition to their functional features, they are distinguished by an attractive design: wood trim, the presence of lighting, the design of shelves and handles.

For domestic use most often buy a small wine cooler, made in a standard design: metal or plastic shelves, blind doors and metal plating. There are also built-in models of wine coolers, which are very easy to install in any kitchen set, wall or furniture.

When buying a wine cooler, as an accessory, they purchase a device for the accelerated enrichment of wine with oxygen before consumption. This helps to reveal the aroma of the drink completely, but too tart - to make it softer.