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

Here’s How to Tell if a Wine Is Worth Aging

Not every Cabernet is meant for the cellar, but experts weigh in on how to tell if you should wait to open a bottle. One of the coolest—and most confounding—things about wine is that it’s alive. It was captured at a moment in time when it went into the bottle, but it continues to change. It might evolve into something a few years down the road that offers beautiful aromas of fruit compote and a bouquet of dried flowers, complex and intriguing layers of flavor and smooth, integrated tannins that say more… Read More