Lesser of 2 evils

[GreggJ]

Good Day All,

I have a question, I recently moved into a new house, approx 9 mos ago. Now in my old home my basement maintained a natural temp of 58-70* depending on the season, which worked out great for wine celaring. However, I am realizing that my new basement flucutates a bit more. I have a thermometer down there and with the recent heatwaves in the NE it reached as high as 77*. Now I have about 10 cases of wine in my cellar that I am cellaring. I was wondering what is the liklihood that prolonged exposure, 2 mos or so, to this type of heat will damage the wine?

I have a 60 bottle wine fridge that I keep some of the more expensive wines in. I also have a spare standard refrigerator in the basement that I could put about 100 bottles in. However, at the lowest setting the fridge maintains about 40-42*

My question; is it better to keep the wine in the standard fridge in the summer months and expose them to greater rapid changes in temp. 72 degrees at present to 40*? or is it better to expose them to less variation of temps and let the natural ebb and flow of the basement acclimate themselves? The basment is typically around 70-72 degrees in the summer but, did hit approx 77 during the recent heat wave.

Thanks in advance for your time and knowledge.