Wine cellar vibration


Diluting wine with water
Sometimes wine gets diluted with other liquids. About 20 years ago I visited my sister for Thanksgiving and brought a very nice barolo with...

I am a relatively new wine collector (6 months) and have already purchased one wine cooler (35 bottle) and of course I have already outgrown it. I am purchasing wines that I want to collect. I have been buying 2000 and 2003 ports as well as 2000 and 2001 Barolos. To me these are expensive and I want to take care of them. The cooler I bought is a decent one (2 zone - but unfortunately the larger section is for the whites and I really don't collect whites) but it is a compressor and not thermoelectric.

Here is my question. I am getting ready to get a larger one, probably in the 200 plus range. Generally, Thermoelectric are not made larger than 40 bottles and then they become very expensive. I have seen some coolers in the $1000 - $1500 range but they work off a compressor. Is buying one of these going to have vibration that can really negative affect a port that I plan to cellar for another 15 years? I will be keeping it in my basement which has a temperature around 70 degrees, but I have no humidifier in my house.

Anyone Recall a BNB Wine, Matilda Bay
Recently, several of us winos were discussing our "old days," and the plonk that we ingested in the name of wine, while discussing how folk eschew...
Diluting wine with water
Didn't think of this before, but "White Port" blends have a history in the US too, reportedly, but not under that name, and of course pre-mixed and bottled and very deliberately marketed. As...

My other option is to make a wine cellar. I have been reading about the vapor barriers and insulation and I feel I could do it, but I would prefer to just buy a cooler. A friend told me that even the slightest vibaration (maybe unnoticeable, but at a molecular level) could destroy my ports.

Any help would be very appreciated.


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