Cellar wine

Hi Steve. I highly recommend going to

To get you started, I'll go on my personal experience. Firstly, whatever you buy will always be too small :-), so keep that in mind (without blowing your budget *too* much). Personally, I have a 34 bottle cellar, so I just use it for the few wines I'm storing long-term and then keep the everyday wines in cardboard boxes in my basement (not ideal, but fortunately for me my basement temperatures aren't too variable, and it is only the wines which I intend to drink in the very near future, so they shouldn't come to too much harm).

I bought mine from Wine Enthusiast and can't compliment them enough on their service -- I think it took them two days from time of order to deliver! The one thing I would change if I could is to get a cellar with a readout. My cellar does not have any sort of readout of the temperature, so I had to get a small digital thermometer (and hygrometer, so I could check on the humidity) and keep playing with the thermostat until it got to where I wanted it. If (when?) I buy another cellar, I will definitely look for one with a built-in readout. Most of them seem to have LED displays at the top.

Good luck

Ian