Cellar Options

Choosing a size

To an extent, the cellar size you choose depends on whether you're likely to use it mostly for everyday-drinking wines (which have a higher turnover) or also to store cases of fine wine, which you may wish to hold onto for many years.

Even if you just buy three cases of fine wine a year, it's amazing how quickly even a good-sized cellar can fill up!

As a starting point, try the following calculation. Work out roughly how many bottles of wine you might drink in an average week, multiply it by 50 to get your yearly consumption (allowing for two weeks holiday away from home.) Next, add on the rough number of fine wines you might buy to drink in the long-term. Finally, multiply this overall figure by five, and that will give you some idea of the size of cellar you need.

	Bottles
Weekday consumption	3
Weekend consumption	2
Yearly consumption	250
Plus 4 cases of fine wine	298
Multiply by 5	1,490
Thus the best Spiral Cellar in this case would be either 2.5m or 3m deep, depending on the expexcted turnover of bottles.

As recommended by Hugh Johnson.