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Carl Walton

Owner & primary writer on PinotSquirrel.com. It is my goal to bring you the most useful and actionable guidance about wine storage there is online. I consult with industry experts to bring you only what you need to know.

If you’re thinking about adding a wine cellar to your home anytime soon, then you probably have an abundance of questions about the construction. However, along with construction prices, you’ll also have to consider the overall cost of the project. Since the amount of putting in a wine cellar can be substantial, you’ll have to …

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When it comes to wine, you have probably heard a wine aficionado say that ‘Aged wines are always better.’ If you have ever been lucky enough to taste an aged wine, you would know they do have a significant difference in taste and quality. You may be wondering how you can store wine from the …

Read More about 8 Proven Steps for Long-Term Wine Storage (Complete Guide)

You’ve been running errands for a couple of hours and intended to pick up the sparkling wine for tomorrow’s brunch last, but you just realized that you forgot a couple of things at the grocery store. You figure it’s no problem. You’ll be in and out, right? Wrong. By the time you get back to …

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If you like to entertain, you’ll want to be prepared for guests with a great wine selection. You’ll see many different ways to store wine out there, including several styles of wine refrigerators. Before making a purchase, you’ll want to find out more about the types of wine that work well in a wine fridge.  …

Read More about Are Wine Refrigerators Only for White Wine? Real Talk Only

We’ve all felt the joy of opening a bottle of white wine with friends, having full intention to complete the bottle. But sometimes you have half a bottle left and don’t want to throw it out or waste delicious vino. If you are a wine fanatic, this guide will offer you all the tips and …

Read More about How to Store White Wine After Opening (Complete Guide)

We’ve all had that after-party experience of realizing we have a few open bottles of wine lying around, and the corks are nowhere to be found. If you wind up losing the cork on your wine, don’t worry. There are plenty of different methods you can use to store wine efficiently. Are there ways to …

Read More about 8 Ways to Keep Wine Without a Cork (Proven Effective)

One of the many misconceptions about storing wine is–the older, the better. Although that is true for some wines, like with many things—it’s not as simple as movies, magazines, and websites make it out to be.   The truth is that storing wine is more of an art. A lot more goes into storing wine …

Read More about Do’s & Don’ts of Proper Wine Storage (Checklist Included)

If you are an aspiring wine collector, you will want to know whether your wine needs to be stored horizontally or vertically. You want to do it correctly to get the best out of your wine, especially if you purchase an expensive bottle. Even if it isn’t expensive, you want the best taste possible. You …

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In recent years, Freon has been a hot-button topic when it comes to wine storage in wine refrigerators and how they cool. A typical wine refrigerator looks and works much like a smaller version of a kitchen refrigerator.  It has a compressor that pressurizes a refrigerant that, in turn, fluxes between liquid and vaporous states to …

Read More about Do Wine Refrigerators Have Freon? (Find Out Which Ones Do)

Wine refrigerators can be stored in the kitchen, but is it wise to place them next to an oven? Wine fridges come in a variety of sizes ranging from small countertop models that can hold a few bottles to large units with a storage capacity of over 100 bottles and multiple chilling zones.  Given the relatively …

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