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6 Temperature and Humidity
6.1 Introduction
In a natural wine cellar, the temperature varies little and, if it does, it generally varies
very slowly from one season to the next. Your Avintage wine cabinet mechanically
reproduces the optimum conditions of a natural wine cellar, which is indispensable
for your wines.
The process relies on an electronic regulation system to precisely control the
temperature. As a result, the wine cabinet operates by cycles: small temperature
variations can therefore be observed in the air of the wine cabinet enclosure. This is
normal and the temperatures, which can be randomly read by placing a thermometer
in the tank, do not precisely reflect the temperature that interests you the most –
namely, the temperature of your wine, for which your wine cabinet was designed.
It is thanks to this principle of small temperature variations in the air around the set
point (temperature set, desired and controlled by the electronic regulation system)
that an average stabilized temperature is obtained in the bottle.
The more bottles your wine cabinet contains, the greater the thermal mass of your
bottles will be, and the less significant the impact of possible ambient temperature
variations will be due to thermal inertia. Thermal inertia is the tendency of your
bottles to keep their initial temperature for a long duration in case thermal equilibrium
with their environment is disturbed.
Therefore, it is possible to designate in this way the slow pace at which a possible
temperature disturbance would bring your bottles to a new point of equilibrium.
It should be noted that for liquids (except for water) the conductivity drops 0.15% per
33.8F (1°C) on the average when the temperature increases.
Most people have had unexpected guests show up, deeming it necessary to place a
bottle of Champagne or white wine that is at an ambient temperature (68F - 20°C)
into the refrigerator (39.2F - 4°C) to chill it. Yet after an hour, the bottle is typically still
not chilled enough to be consumed.
With this cabinet, there is no need to worry if you observe temperature variations on
the order of 35.6F (2°C) around the set point in the cabinet's enclosure: Your wines
are perfectly preserved! The contents of a wine cabinet filled with 200 bottles
represents a mass of approximately 260 kg (one 75 cl wine bottle = 1.3 kg on the
average), which is significant. By referring to the above example and the conditions
under which this single bottle would have been subjected, the small variations
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