All y'all are making me jealous.

Though I might have one possibility here, will see in a few years when I buy
a house. But when I do, being in Oklahoma, good chance taht I will have a
tornado shelter. WIll keep a thermometer in there, but if the temperature
is good down there, may use it as a wine cellar.


"Woodswun" > wrote in message
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> Pinky wrote:
>> My own belief is that temperature contol is the most important. The
>> debate about corks and other closures is much more difficult! But, that
>> being said, if you have a "real cellar" underground then temperature
>> changes are so much slower and the wine is so much happier with that sort
>> of regime.
>> One can obviously build and maintain a strictly temperature controlled
>> cellar but that is not at all necesary.
>>
>> About 35 year ago I had a pub in Somerset in England. My cellar was quite
>> small for a pub but it had a small stream -- well a spring higher up in
>> the garden, which ran through my celllar all year round.
>> In hot summers I could guarrentee that my draught beer would be the
>> coolest in the village and the taps in th ebar woul "frost" up without
>> any artificial cooling. My quite small stock of wines was stored there
>> also and I never had problems with them.
>> The rreal problem with aging is not quite all a matter of the actual
>> temperature but rather a wide fluctuation in tempersature. Of couse one
>> can add humity control and if you are maintaining artificial temperature
>> control then you must similarly maintain humidity control as well. But
>> temperature control by natural means is ( IMHO) a n inexpensive and
>> probably the best way off doing it.
>> When you look how long wine has been made then you must believe in
>> natural processes and storage.
>>
>> Sorry -- one of my "high horses"
>
> Your pub cellar sounds great! If you don't mind my asking, how did you
> keep molds and mildew from springing up in the cellar? I'd like to put a
> wine cellar in my cellar (yes, real in-the-ground, dirt floor in
> portions), but it's quite musty down there. Any tips?
>
> Woods