What are the differences between a serving wine cellar and an ageing wine cellar?

The service wine cellar brings and maintains bottles at the right temperature - the serving temperature - during tasting. It generally takes the form of a refrigerated cabinet with shelves. Service wine cellars are not designed to store wine for several years.

Choose the right temperature for your bottles (red, white or rosé). There are single-temperature models and others with multi-temperature adjustment by zone.

The aging wine cellar allows wines to age in the best possible conditions, so that they improve over time, and over several years. Ageing wine cellars are designed for conservation and preservation. This type of model must respect :

• a constant temperature,
• precise hygrometry (humidity level),
• good ventilation.

The ageing cellar must also protect the bottles from light and UV rays, and prevent any vibrations.

Design, built-in, capacity, multi-zone, capacity, the choice of models is now vast!

Now it all depends on :

• what you intend to do with your wines (conservation over several years, storage, always having a bottle at the right temperature for dinner!)
• your tastes (are you a red wine enthusiast, a white wine enthusiast or both?),
• the space you have available (house/apartment),
• the number of bottles you have,
• your budget.

A compromise? There's a third type of cellar: the mixed cellar, also known as the multi-function cellar. More versatile, it assumes both functions (conservation and service).