A Wine Storage Cabinet for Your Cabernet
I don’t want to sound pompous, but I’m a bit of a budding wine connoisseur. I can taste a wine blindfolded and identify every flavor in it. I’ve begun purchasing a wide variety and number of wines to open at the perfect time, be it a relaxing drink in my study, or an exciting dinner party with my friends who appreciate wine as much as I do. Since I started buying so much wine, I really needed a wine storage cabinet big enough to hold my collection. I’d just been improvising a cabinet, but I decided it was finally time to buy a real one. I did some research and found out a lot of interesting things.
The History Of Wine Storage Cabinets
Wine storage cabinets were only invented fairly recently in 1976. EuroCave in Lyon France was the first company to make a wine storage cabinet that could mimic the ideal conditions for aging wine. Since then, the majority of changes have been in technology. The cabinets have better lighting for reading labels, run more quietly, allow for more control over the conditions, and have a lower price tag. Other improvements come in padding for the bottles and remote temperature controls. It is likely that all of these things will continue to improve over time, but the basic design won’t change much since the basic idea is to reproduce the conditions that wine aged in the past, and modern day wine storage cabinets already do that.
Finding The Right Wine Storage Cabinet
After I had learned a lot more about wine storage cabinets and how they work, I was ready to buy, but not sure what to buy. I decided that whatever I finally bought, it would have to be EuroCave. Not only did they invent the wine cabinet, all the reviews said they did it better than anyone else. My first choice of theirs was the EuroCave Wine Chamber. It wasn’t as fancy as some, but was the least expensive. I’m fairly well off, but I got here by being value conscious, and I wasn’t about to abandon that here. However, the wine storage cabinet still offered a lot of great features. It had adjustable shelves, precise temperature controls, and lots of storage space for all my bottles.
My other possibility was the EuroCave Performance 283. It was the top of the line model. I figured I’d either go for value, or buy the best of the best. The Performance 283 was certainly the best wine storage cabinet out there. It included a multitude of features such as up to possible three temperature zones. The one temperature zone model wasn’t as versatile, but offered extra features meant to make it the best aging cabinet possible such as a hygrometer to detect humidity so that you can keep it at the optimal range. The two and three temperature range models offered a lot of convenience for keeping wine not only for aging, but also at perfect serving temperatures.
In the end, I decided to buy the EuroCave Wine Chamber. My collection was getting big, but not big enough to spend three times as much for the fancier wine storage cabinet.