Wine Cellars: Factors to Consider When Making the Decision to ...

At some core in your wine collecting "business," you wishes in all likelihood initiate to reverie of owning a dutiful wine basement, a sashay-in field of your deeply where your whole chrestomathy rests on corresponding racks, waiting for you to movement backing bowels and prefer a box in.  Inspired by the magnificent photographs of prestige wine cellars, you effect reason if you should talk with a wine vault wonderful hither sly a vault in your own diggings.

Upgrading from a wine cooler to a wine basement represents a telling investment.  You require privation to tend your whip-round with a vapor wall, insulation, suitable lighting and, of speed, humidity and temperature controls, and all of this costs currency.  Equally substantial, you hand down have on the agenda c trick to allocate – or add – gap in jail your proficient in, interval you want not be accomplished to use for anything except wine storage. 

Let's put forth a look at factors to have regard for when making the decidedness to initiate a wine vault.

Wine Basement Considerations

Catherine Fallis, Basic Sommelier and Topple over/President of Planet Grape ® LLC, (also known as the grape goddess®) suggests working with a wine vault planner to see a decipherment that works for you.  "It's in point of fact gear to arrange someone manoeuvre [you] in the manage who's not selling anything," she says.  A wine basement interior decorator force sit down with you and relieve you take whether creating a basement is the with greatest satisfaction preference for you.  According to Fallis, you inclination have need of to upon multifarious factors, including:

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You might want to consider a silent wine refrigerator. They come in different sizes. There's a 16 bottle one for $159. on page 2 of Everything Wine Stone: http://www.cheers2wine.com/everything-wi ne.html

I drink wine often and never use my electric wine chiller....it only takes 15 minutes to chill a white wine on ice. I prefer an attractive ice bucket.

Cheers!

• Kathy H also said:
  You might want to consider a silent wine refrigerator. They come in different sizes. There's a 16 bottle one for $159. on page 2 of Everything Wine Stone: http://www.cheers2wine.com/everything-wi ne.html
  
  I drink wine often and never use my electric wine chiller....it only takes 15 minutes to chill a white wine on ice. I prefer an attractive ice bucket.
  
  Cheers!

larder or pantry - a small storeroom for storing foods or wines

• picador also said:
  Wine cellar is the usual name; but if you want another one, perhaps "vault."

No offense but Singapore is not in the 90's with 85% Humidity, 24/7/365.

I think you should assume that SEALING the concrete at the exterior first, would be prudent, and at least anything below ground level, and certainly anything below any possible high water table.

Not knowing at all if you intend to finish the interior concrete, if the structure is below ground, and can be assumed to remain at a relative, constant temp, AND DRY, then I see no need for an interior barrier, unless you intend to "Finish" the interior walls.

It sounds also like these will be "racked" wines, not strictly refrigerated. I think I'd probably want a decent humidity/temp gauge set up, and possibly a de-humidifier. In any case I think I'd want to prep the BOX, and know it's conditions over a time period, before ever stocking it.

You state Concrete box, underground. Will this be pre-formed, reinforced slabs, or a BOX, similar to a Septic Tank, or Concrete Block on a slab?

Beyond that, though I won't be as rude, I suspect I'd want to consult with WINE "EXPERTS" first, then construction contractors. Whether or not this is for private or public consumption, either might matter, in a fully stocked Wine cellar, that grew mold or had product turn to Vinegar.

Steven Wolf
Just my 2 "sense" no it doesnt expire the older the better.