Keep Your Cellar in Tip Top Shape for
Optimal Wine Storage!

Protect Your Storage Area:

• Strong odors and wine don’t mix: avoid storing chemical products such as cleaning fluids and fuel oil nearby, or your valuable wines may pick up these unwanted odors.
• Mop up bad habits: since wine and light don’t mix, keep daylight and fluorescent light to a minimum by turning off the light and closing the door when leaving the storage area.
• If your overflow is stored in cardboard boxes, turn the boxes upside down: stacking boxes this way is safer, as the tops and bottoms are usually stronger than the sides — and those upside-down bottles will keep the corks moist, too.
• Avoid the “lift and crash accident” by never keeping wine-filled cardboard boxes on the floor. We guarantee one of those bottoms will eventually rot.
• Stacking 101: heat rises, so if some of your wines are kept out side a wine storage unit, stack the sparkling wines near the floor, the whites in the middle and the reds on top.
• Avoid wide fluctuations in temperature by keeping the door to the storage area closed

Service and Maintain Your Wine-Cooling Unit:

• Make sure your temperature gauge is reading correctly by double-checking its accuracy with a household thermometer. If storing red and white wines in the same unit, maintain the temperature at 55-57 degrees Fahrenheit.
• If cooling fins are dusty, take a vacuum cleaner to them. A vacuum cleaner will ensure that the dust is not pushed into the unit’s machinery.
• The cooling fins must be straight. If they are bent, the unit will eat up electricity. Straighten them out with a special plastic comb, which can be inexpensively purchased from a plumbing/heating/AC supply store.