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A real wine cellar tends to be an underground room in which conditions are ideal for the proper storing and aging of wine. Historically, in many of these cellars or even caves, these conditions have often been so natural that the function succeeded even without any artificial climate controls.

The problem is, of course, that not everyone can create this sort of underground room in their own home, so they are left using compact wine refrigerators instead, which don’t preserve wine for nearly as long or as perfectly.

However, if they decide to use a wine room, they can still enjoy most of the functions of the original wine cellars.

One of the great advantages of this kind of wine cellar is that it can be made of prefabricated parts and brought in to take up just one corner of a person’s home, perhaps in a basement or even a spare bedroom.

It can have a simple design or have decorative doors and windows, and will come with locks as well for extra protection. Unlike even the best refrigerated wine cabinets, this unit can have its conditions regulated enough for aging the wine and storing it for the long term.

Smaller wine bottle refrigerators don’t need to be the only choice available to someone who has no way to extend their home or who lives in an apartment.

They can have all the benefits of a real wine cellar by adding one of these wine rooms, either in a basement corner, extra bedroom, or even a corner of a living or dining room if they have the space.

Adding refrigeration and careful climate controls, individuals can store their wine collections in rooms that recreate the effects of the original wine cellars.

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Wine refrigerators are made to serve at least some of the purposes of the original underground wine cellars, as they store wine in cool, atmospherically controlled conditions.

Of course there are differences between a real wine cellar and one of these newer appliances that might bear the same name, because wine cellar refrigerators can’t be used for long term storage or aging of wine. But as well as keeping most wine ready to drink for several months, they now often have a dual function, which is to serve as actual furniture in the home.

You might think these wine cellars would be purely utilitarian, especially if they’re kept in a kitchen somewhere, but many models can actually be designed to be part of the larger decorative scheme of the room.

This may not be the case so much with under counter wine refrigerators that are built into the lower cabinetry like a dishwasher. Yet even that sort of wine fridge can be designed with a front panel to match either the cabinetry itself or the surfaces of the large appliances.

The primary function of these wine bottle refrigerators is the same as the long-time function of the original wine cellars whose name they often bear, which is to store and preserve wine for an extended period of time.

But they also serve functions unlike anything those cellars have ever done. As well as preserving wine, they are also being used as actual furniture, standing with other pieces as important elements in the design scheme of the entire home.

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