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How to choose a wine fridge?
A wine fridge preserves the flavors of your wines and offers friendly access to your bottles. Now, the question is: which one to choose?
3 things to consider
Your choice of wine fridge must reflect your relationship with wine and your needs:
- Your consumption habits and tastes in wine are the first elements to take into account when contemplating the purchase of a wine cabinet.
- Next, choosing the size of your future wine fridge is important, based on the number of wine bottles you plan to store and where you want to install it.
- Finally, it is necessary to meet the aesthetic criteria that are important to you: type of door, color of the cabinet, lighting.
1. Use
Do you regularly drink a glass of wine during impromptu dinners or family barbecues? Do you enjoy both a dry white and tannic red?
A wine fridge with multiple service temperatures would suit you best.
Are you storing your wines, reserving them for special occasions? Carefully selecting each bottle gives you real satisfaction and pride?
A single-temperature wine cabinet would be the most fitting option.
2. Size
A big wine lover but limited in space, opt for a smaller wine cabinet with a capacity of around fifty bottles, ideal for you. If you are an epicurean and do not suffer from space constraints, a large wine cabinet that can store several hundred bottles would be more appropriate.
Caution. The storage capacities of wine fridges vary based on the number of shelves and bottle sizes. Often, the advertised figures only consider classic Bordeaux bottles, sometimes without including shelves. While these numbers may be impressive, they do not reflect the daily needs of a wine lover who wants to store various types and sizes of bottles without complications, without having to rearrange shelves, and without the risk of damaging labels.
Goguette wine fridges are available in 3 sizes. For each one, we imagined the exact number of shelves, allowing you optimal daily use.
3. Design
Goguette Glossary
Understanding technical terms like conservation, service and aging wine cabinets, and distinguishing the differences between these various types often requires a certain level of expertise or in-depth research.
At Goguette, we believe it’s essential to explain these terms to you in a clear and straightforward manner, once and for all.
Designed to maintain optimal temperature conditions for storing wines for up to 5 years, the conservation cabinet has an adjustable single temperature setting.
Specifically designed to store wines for extended periods, up to 10 or even 20 years, by creating optimal temperature, humidity, and stability conditions to enhance maturation and flavor development over time. The aging wine fridge has a single temperature zone usually set at 12°C (53,6°F).
Designed to maintain wines at specific temperatures for immediate tasting, so you can serve them at optimal temperatures in order to bring out their full aromas. A dual zone wine fridge or service wine cabinet is generally available with 1 or 2 temperature zones, or features a temperature gradient throughout its entire height.
Designed not only to store wines, but also to prepare bottles for serving at their ideal serving temperature. Multi-zone wine fridge are generally available with 3 temperature zones.
To go even further
Whether you’re storing wines for a special occasion, opening a bottle on the weekend to accompany a good meal, or always having a bottle ready for a spontaneous tasting, we have the perfect wine cellar for you.
