wine room
Sign in to saveAlso known as wine closet, winecellar, wine cellars, cellar door, wine cellar
storage room for wine, often dark and with near constant temperature and moisture
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- storage room
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- shop=alcohol
- Commons category
- Wine cellars
- different from
- root cellar
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Encyclopedic overview
Wine cellar in Chvalovice, Czechia
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 (fewer than 500 bottles) is sometimes termed a wine closet. The household department responsible for the storage, care and service of wine in a great mediaeval house was termed the buttery. Large wine cellars date back over 3,700 years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “wine room” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.