Can you put champagne in a wine cellar?

Contrary to popular belief, champagne is first and foremost a wine. While it may be a prestigious wine, it remains the product of vinification, just like red, rosé, or white wines.

Like a grand cru, champagne improves with age, gaining in flavor and subtle aromas over the months and years of maturation, provided it is stored in optimal conditions. Conditions that only a perfectly equipped and designed wine cellar can guarantee.

Why is a wine cellar the best solution for storing your bottles of champagne?

Whether you choose a standard champagne, a champagne from a major house, or a vintage champagne, this exceptional wine is ready to drink as soon as it is available. However, aside from the fact that you may plan to purchase champagne in large quantities and need to store it for a certain period of time, you should know that champagne acquires diverse flavors when you give it time to age.

Aging champagne in a wine cellar allows it to evolve, its flavors enriched with various aromas depending on the winemaking methods, the grape varieties used, and the storage conditions in your wine cellar.

What are the conditions for storing champagne in a wine cellar?

The finesse and subtlety of champagne flavors require strict rules regarding storage, preservation, and aging. Otherwise, and depending on many factors, champagne can deteriorate due to mold or fungus on the cork, the presence of vibrations that mix the sediment with the rest of the wine, not to mention the appearance of your bottles, whose labels can suffer from poor conditions.

For optimal storage of your bottles, magnums, Jeroboams, and other champagne formats, a wine cellar must absolutely protect them from:

• Natural light, particularly ultraviolet light, is detrimental to the preservation properties of champagne and wine in general.
  Odorants can be absorbed by the cork and transferred to the champagne, giving it the flavor of the elements you have stored nearby.
  Temperature fluctuations are certainly one of the main obstacles to the proper preservation and optimal aging of your champagne bottles. It is necessary to maintain a constant temperature between 10 and 14 degrees to give your champagne every chance of improving and enjoying pleasant tasting moments.
  Poor ventilation or excessive drafts. Indeed, champagne, like other wines, does not tolerate excessive or insufficient ventilation, so your cellar must provide constant air exchange, neither too strongly nor too weakly.
  Finally, vibrations and sound waves can damage the beverage contained in your champagne bottles. Under the effect of the vibrations created by these disturbances, the deposits mix with the sparkling wine, causing a deterioration in its taste and flavor, not to mention the consequences for the finesse of the bubbles.
  Which champagne should be stored in a wine cellar?

  Although all champagnes find their place in a wine cellar, many cuvées should be drunk without delay, especially if the previous storage conditions are unknown.

  However, vintage champagnes and certain special cuvées deserve to be aged and maintained in an environment conducive to their sublimation, a time and conditions necessary for the nectar to flourish and offer you an unparalleled range of flavors.

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