A time will come along the path to your wine education, when you will identify wines you like and you will want to purchase them in quantities of 3 bottles or more. The bug can bite at any moment and once bitten we are taken down a path of buying more and more of the wine that we enjoy.
There are a number of good reasons for wanting to store wine you like. How often have you bought a bottle of wine then revisited the wine retailer only to discover they no longer have stock and the winery itself has sold out of the wine for which you were searching.
Wineries make a limited supply of good quality wine and even smaller quantities of great wines. It is a great idea that when you discover wines that you are passionate about that you find a suitable wine cellar in which to store them for future enjoyment - one that keeps the wine in prime condition while the wines age under controlled conditions.
To make sure you can keep your wine in top condition while being cellared you need to consider the humidity and temperature in order to ensure the aging process for the wines being cellared is constant and free from significant changes. The best cellar I have found that meets this goal is a BYO (Build your Own) Wine Cellar - either a single cabinet version that can hold 160 bottles, or a dual cabinet model that is designed to hold 320 bottles of wine.
Is capacity for 320 bottles enough storage capacity for your needs? Storage capacity of up to 320 bottles is definitely enough storage space, unless you are throwing dinner parties with huge numbers of guests every other weekend.
I made the mistake a few years back of constructing a massive wine cellar in my house that could hold more than of 2500 bottles of wine. I proceeded to fill up the wine cellar as my passion for wine increased however it got to the point where it was not possible that I could consume all the wine I had acquired and unfortunately a number of my wines spoilt before I could drink them. I later sold my house and the next owner did exactly the same thing I did! You don’t need cellaring capacity for 3000 bottles of wine is the point that I am making! A BYO deluxe wine cellar can be purchased inexpensively and assembled within your current living space with little or no hassle.
My recommendation for wine storage is first to consider your living environment, ensuring that a wine cellar can be accommodated within your home without doing major renovations, and secondly, that you consider realistically the amount of wine you are going to want to store.