There are many reasons for starting a wine cellar - investment, hobby or mere convenience - certainly a well stocked cellar provides for the right wine at the right time.

Whatever one's specific reason for starting and maintaining a wine cellar elements of fun and economics will feature.

Firstly, it can and should be fun. Fun to taste, choose and collect from the myriad of wines available from all over the world, fun to analyze the wine as it matures, to savour its complexities and to share the magic with family and friends.

Secondly, it is generally always cheaper to purchase young wines than matured wines, if they are in fact available. Having said this, it is true that most of the world’s wines are meant to be consumed before the next vintage whilst the wines still possess their youth and freshness. Equally though, it can be said that all wines will benefit from some time resting in the bottle - mature wines offer flavours and aromas that are simply not found in young wines.

So, through an economic perspective, a wine cellar affords the opportunity to buy wines when they are young, readily available and generally at their cheapest, to store it to maturity and then to gain the maximum benefit from the wine.

There is also then an option to sell some of the mature wines at premium prices thereby providing funds to purchase more wines!