Wine Cellar Ideas For Your Prized Wine Collection

From contemporary cabinets for compact spaces to traditional wine-wall designs, Devati Mallick offers a primer on how to set up a functional home wine cellar

- Devati Mallick

Picture this. You are a wine enthusiast, who has collected many precious bottles of wine over the years that have found their way into your very own wine collection.

However, appreciating a fine glass of wine in the comfort of your own home also comes with the requirement to store it the right way. And maybe even go a step ahead by organizing it according to your personal preferences — by the wine style, the country, or simply by the ‘drink-now’ or ‘store-for-later’ yardstick. Put simply, you need a home wine cellar, because the best wines can spoil if stored incorrectly.

This doesn’t have to be the vast underground space of ancient times that could hold enough wine to last a few generations. I’m going to tell you how even a little closet can be transformed into a functional and beautiful wine storage area. A home wine cellar today is nothing but a specially cooled space or a cabinet that stores all your wine labels in the right conditions, offering oenophiles the best taste of their valued wines time and again.

First things first: Pick a spot