TheEngineer

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I read a report recently that suggests the humidity in the cellar doesn't really play as much a role as people once thought. The humidity inside the bottle is 100%, so if the closure is uncompromised, there's no appreciable transfer through to the outside. In fact, for short term storage (less than ten years) the transfer of water molecules from the wine to the cork is sufficient to allow the wine to be stored standing up with no degradation.