The Pleasures of Wine ... in Your Home

The invention of wine may be the result of good fortune, but the pleasures associated with its consumption often becomes a passion. If you are a collector, one who has developed a passion for wine, the many qualities of a fine wine have seduced you. You take pleasure in admiring its colour, sniffing its aroma and appreciating its flavour. Naturally, you are now ready to give your precious liquids a worthy storage place. A cellar is therefore indispensable.

If your wine collection contains more than 500 bottles and if this number is bound to increase in time, you must consider building your own walk-in cellar. A room will be renovated to meet wine storage demands, which means making it airtight, refrigerating it, and properly outfitting it with storage units and racks. The whole point of a cellar is to age each wine until it reaches the point of perfection in ideal conditions. The selected room or location will need to be cool, dark, free of vibration and will need a constant controlled temperature and humidity. Do not hold back on the size of that special room. Managing a well-stocked cellar requires functional design of the space you have chosen and you will be surprised to see how fast racks and storage spaces fill up. Imagine a number of bottles, double it, then double it again!

This type of project requires the assistance of a designer and professional builder like Le Maître Cellier®. His savoir-faire in the building of residential cellars and restaurant cellars has allowed him to build an excellent reputation for himself. Our expert can also design a customized wine cellar plan for the exact size of the chosen room.

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