How to Protect Your Wine From Heat, Power Outages and Earthquakes (Yes, Earthquakes) — WSJ
Eric LeVine lives in a 7,000-square-foot Foursquare Craftsman home in Seattle that was built in 1912. In 2007, he completed a 2,000-square-foot addition that included a garage, a home theater, a sunroom and a deck. Mr. Levine, founder and chief executive officer of CellarTracker, a website and app for cataloging wine collections, and an avid wine connoisseur, also built two subterranean wine cellars as part of the addition. With 500 square feet of space, the cellars can hold 8,000 bottles, although his personal collection currently consists of 3,200. “A huge temperature-controlled, humid… Read More
How To Design A Custom Wine Cellar For Your Home
Increasingly, oenophiles are choosing sleek, designed “wine rooms” that keep bottles cool and also show off cool collections. Like many rooms in the house that need an occasional tweak, your wine storage is an area that should be renewed for a number of reasons: better access to your bottles, to accommodate a growing inventory or update with new technology. But there’s another reason: giving your wine collection a place in your everyday life by integrating it into your living space. “What we’re seeing now—especially in new developments—are all these incredible wine rooms… Read More





