Your wine won’t put up with the way you live.
Air, humidity, low or high temperatures, light and vibration.
These are all things people live with every day: wind blowing off the Arkansas River, humid summer nights, fluorescent office lights and vibrating cell phones, writes Tracy M. Rogers in HomeStyle.
These things that people encounter daily, however, are not so good for wine. Which is why people who want to protect their wine from that which they tolerate seek to control how it is stored.
Options include traditional wine cellars, carefully designed wine rooms and freestanding wine coolers that refrigerate wine at its optimal storage temperature and humidity. Size and style are dependent on how many bottles there are and how long they will be stored.
See tomorrow’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for tips on how to keep a wine collection cozy and content at home.