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A dark room where patience gets bottled and sold back to you expensively.
means An underground or cool storage space built specifically to keep wine at a stable temperature while it ages.
from Straightforward compound: 'wine' from Old English 'win,' borrowed long ago from Latin 'vinum,' and 'cellar' from Latin 'cellarium,' a storeroom, related to 'cella' meaning a small chamber (the same root that gives us 'cell'). The practice behind the word is older than the word itself — underground storage kept wine cool and dark long before anyone needed a name for the room.
- ideal temp
- 55°F, colder sulks the flavor
- orientation
- bottles lie flat, keeps corks wet and honest
- light enemy
- UV ages wine faster than time does
- humidity
- 70% stops corks drying and air sneaking in