How to Store Wine

Wine is expensive, and good wine is even more expensive. Nothing is worse for a Wine collector to come to their collection and see that all their bottles are ruined. So let’s ensure this never happens and show you how to store wine.

How To Store Wine

Taking these tips into consideration will ensure that whenever you take a bottle out of storage it will be perfect.

1. Angle Is Everything

Oxygen is the biggest enemy to self storage, so keep it far, far away. The best way to do that? The angle at which you store your bottles. If you wondered why wine is almost always stored on its side, it’s because of the cork. The cork soaks up and wine and expands. This expansion keeps the seal as tight as possible and keeps the oxygen out of the bottle.

2. Temperature

Arguably the most important factor when storing wine and the reason why wine fridges exist. The temperature also affects the cork and the seal as well, too high a temp and the Wine will sour and too cold the cork will let air in. At North Shore Mini Storage, we have climate controlled units, perfect for storing your precious wine.

3. Humidity

This one is pretty simple. Too dry of an environment and the cork will crack and leak. Make sure to keep the environment a bit humid to ensure your corks stay in place.

4. Security

As mentioned before, wine can be really expensive. This is a problem for people who keep expensive collections at home, as often they are the target of burglaries. Keeping your Wine with North Shore Mini Storage is the safest option and we even have insurance options.

5. Don’t Touch

Key, key, the key is not to disturb the bottles once you have put them in storage until you drink them that is. Vibrations and disrupt the natural sediment that builds up in the Wine, and if its constantly disturbed, the Wine will taste bitter when drank.

Keep the Wine you drink safe and secure, and now that you are a Wine storage expert, rent a climate controlled room for your Wine collection.

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Mike Olsen

18:58 16 Oct 19

This is inexpensive storage that operates 100% as advertised - they do not offer 24/7 access and do not charge 24/7 access pricing. They are incredibly responsive to requests to unlock doors and provide access. It is not fancy but if you need a clean, dry place to store your stuff, you can't beat these guys. Don't expect bells and/or whistles but you also won't be paying for them.

Dave Shirlaw

01:54 10 Jun 19

Have to phone to have buildings unlocked. Annoying.

megan chow

23:06 21 May 19

sara ~

01:04 25 Sep 18

Prices are 1/2 the price of other storage units but it shuts down (locked gates) from 10 am - 6 pm except if you have the enormous ground level outside facing units. Those hours are impossible. The technology getting items up to the second story is an actual forklift thats made stationary. You balance your items up the forklift (and you raise the wooden pallet up yourself) Then you must walk up stairs and hope their is a dolly available to wind precariously around tiny turning hallways. Budget carpentry and ancient carpet in the units. The trolleys sound and feel like their from 1980's and are either coached to disobey or they keep their own counsel. They say its secure but I had a neighbor pick something up and they weren't even asked for permission. I explicitly stated only I was to have access. They said they do not let it happen. The locks are your own, but the flip closure is attached by 3/4 wood screws easily and possibly quite quietly could be opened and emptied with no one batting an eye. A kid could detach it with anything. They have "24 hour security" which means a guy lives on site. Does he/she have CCTV access? Probably not, nor would you want that job. Are there motion sensors? Not likely as sometimes the lights won't turn on and finding a switch in the straggly wandering corridors is impossible. They do not offer insurance. You have to sign forms saying all the things you will and won't do, but they are not liable if anything happens: theft, fire, water, vandals, pests etcSo despite all those complaints, its still 4/5 only because of the prices.