Best way to store wine on a budget?

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Wine is, I suspect, mostly studier than a lot of people give it credit. Otherwise more would be ruined in transport and in stores that don't give it ideal circumstances.

At the Food and Wine Classic in Aspen one year, someone asked a New York wine writer about how he stored wine in his cellar. "What!" he replied. "My apartment IS my cellar." I've had wine in the homes of many people who didn't have proper "cellars" and it was all right.

It seems likely that your wine will survive fine if you keep it away from sunlight, vibration and seek out the cooler part of your apartment. Wine will age a bit faster at higher temperatures, but it shouldn't hurt it as long as the temperatures don't soar too high.