Even when bottles are stored on their side corks will dry out if the humidity level is too low.
Humidity controlled wine storage.
Your entire wine collection could ruin and turn into a major business disaster.
This includes mold on all your wine corks hence.
Too high and you risk mold or mildew growth damaging your labels as well as corks.
How to measure humidity in a wine cellar.
Passive control is only recommended when your wine room is in a tropical or semi tropical high humidity environment.
Relative humidity rh is the percentage of vapor in the air at a given temperature.
The relative humidity level in your wine storage space should range between 50 70.
Wine cellar temperature control also maintains a safe environment away from light and odors to keep your wine cool.
Excessive humidity does not affect the wine however.
Storage humidity levels should ideally stay between 50 to 70 not much higher nor lower.
When humidity goes high you ll start to see mold developing on surfaces where it shouldn t.
Wine storage humidity and wine cellar cooling systems importance of wine cellar humidity.
Winemaking has long been more of an art than a science as wineries look for the perfect combination of grapes processing aging and storing to make the best wine possible.
High humidity can affect corks and surrounding surfaces.
A wine cellar cooling system should be designed to control temperature and humidity in order to preserve your wine collection.
Florida has a constant 50 70 humidity so i am able to simply recycle this humidity in the room or use a drip pan that catches water keeping it in the room.