Weekend Wine Word – Wine Cellar

A wine cellar is a storage room for wine in bottles or barrels, or more rarely in carboys, amphorae or plastic containers. In an active wine cellar, important factors such as temperature and humidity are maintained by a climate control system. In contrast, passive wine cellars are not climate-controlled, and are usually built underground to reduce temperature swings. An aboveground wine cellar is often called a wine room, while a small wine cellar (less than 500 bottles) is sometimes termed a wine closet.

As you can see from the picture above – wine cellars can be quite stunning looking the attention to detail is amazing. This particular wine cellar is located at Devil’s Thumb Ranch.

Learn more about them here and here.