Wine fridge box/bottle storage question.

[Manno]

A quick question for those that have experience with wine fridges. Ive decided to move the wines i have into a pair of Kitchener peltier type wine fridges.

So the question i have is.... do i need to remove them from their boxes and place them all in as individual bottles? Or is the cardboard fine to go in?

Cheers
Manny

[winetastic]

The cardboard is fine, you will be sacrificing a large amount of storage capacity however.

I used to have one of the 430 bottle kitcheners, I would keep the bottom section free to slide boxes in on delivery if I did not have the time to find a home on a shelf and enter them into cellartracker. Eventually of course the bottom was also stacked tightly with bottles...

[Manno]

Yeah your right. Capacity will suffer. I just hate the idea of having everything out of boxes, especially if its years away from seeing the light of day. But that may not be a very rational thought. We’re likely to move within the year too. So i like stuff already packed in boxes.

So besides the practicality. The cardboards not likely to deteriorate?

[Mike Hawkins]

I do both... no dramas either way

[Manno]

Thanks Mike. The boxes are going straight in then!