A wine cellar is of no use if you don’t have a door. Obviously a door serves the obvious purpose of giving you a way to get into your wine cellar, and to keep the inside temperature in, and the outside temperature out. Therefore the door must be insulated.
You have two choices when it comes to your wine cellar door.
First, you could decide that you want your door to be a show-piece, much like the front door of your house. Your guests walk down to your basement, and from across the hall they see a beautiful door. Perhaps made of tempered glass, or perhaps a wooden door, inlaid with carvings of grapes, wines, or other scenes. People gasp at it’s beauty.
Your other choice is to do the exact opposite: make the door as un-glamorous and as un-assuming as possible. Do I want to advertise my wine cellar? If someone breaks into my house, do I want them to be drawn to a beautiful door, knowing what’s behind it?
Furthermore, is a beautiful glass door the most energy-efficient door? Will it keep the temperature constant? I think not.
Wine Cellar Door
As you can see from this wine cellar door picture, I choose to go for practical, and simple. This door is an exterior insulated door, the exact same door you might use as your back door, or even your front door, at your house. It’s insulated to keep the temperature constant, it’s very strong, in the event that someone wanted to break in, and it’s plain white and un-assuming.
A glass door makes no sense. Wine needs total darkness; this door accomplishes that objective. I don’t want the door to be the show-piece in my wine cellar. Go practical: go for a simple exterior insulated door.
Oh yes, it has the added advantage of being much less expensive than a ridiculously ornate show-piece door.
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