Wine. Storage
 

I am moving into the villages and would like to bring my modest wine collection (20 cases). Is there any place nearby to store wine at cellar temperature.

Unfortunately not. We looked last year. The closest location was Winter Park Wine Storage. It’s a little over an hour south of the Villages near Orlando.

Drink up or buy a wine cooler.

A couple of the local restaurants have wine storage on site. Not sure if it’s FMK or Suliman group. The task at hand is shipping cases down, there are companies that will truck down in special trucks. Cost is not outrageous, especially if you have that rare Screaming Eagle. Off site storage is not that far away, in Orlando, again if you have a extensive collection, you are not opening up a bottle that often anyway.

Ours is still in our cellar up north, once we get settled, we are adding on a small controlled room off our office, bringing down our entire system, racks and all.

If your collection isn’t rare wines, then you can sell what isn’t worth shipping down. Plenty of online sites are available, or you can use a brokerage.

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your modest wine collection of 20 cases. Can't just be satisfied with a nice wine storage unit for the kitchen? We have a nice 150 bottle wine fridge by Eurocave and it works very nicely. Now, if the collection is for investment I understand. Either way buono vino.

My house? LOL

A friend of mine lives in Naples. His neighbor turned one of his extra bedrooms into a "wine cellar", adding a mini-split air conditioner, wine racks and a granite topped tasting table. It was an impressive set-up...

Mr. Obvious here..................I vote for a nice refrig.

Can’t imagine how much it’s costing you to ship them down in a refrigerated container.

A wine fridge in the house is best. You have the kitchen area and the dining room area - don’t need 2 places to eat, take table out of one and put a wet bar with a 250 bottle eurocave.

Wow. Eurocave. I had to look it up. I can't justify the cost for my 5 dollar per bottle Woodbridge collection.

and those 3-liter boxes stack really neatly

I figured if OP was willing to pay to store his 20 cases, it must be good wine - not Kendal Jackson. So OP would invest in something nice.

My advice to you is DRINK IT. You are not getting any younger, enjoy it while you still can.
P.S. if you need help contact me. :-)

If this is investment wine, a wine fridge is not the answer. Between temp swings, and vibration from motor you will have a hard time selling it.

Our investment wines are stored at a facility, that will verify storage, pack and ship sold bottles. Our expensive celebration, wine is in our wine cellar. Our everyday wine is racked away from light and temp fluxes.

A closet as long as it is on a outside wall can be converted to a wine cellar. Florida has more wine Masters, Advanced, Certified than most states, and a few have excellent wine cellar companies, that will quote you on converting a space in your home, to an excellent wine storage.

Our other home in TV has a small office, that would make an excellent wine cellar, but we are moving so new plans are in the works

IF those are concerns..............good luck transporting it.

We have a wine cooler in the garage that holds 300 bottles and a full house generator if the power goes off. So the wine is safe.

My place! Ha ha.

Actually there are very reputable wine transportation trucks, that monitor temps, and have a system to handle vibration. Heavily insured, and worth it for investment wine, if you are buying investment wine, there has to be solid records. After all if you have bottle worth thousands, not only are the companies worth using, but the buyers will spend money on the transport also

At My house. It won't last long.