The Wine Collector

BusinessWeek.com has an interesting article called “Sophisticated cellars” posted on November 22, 2006 with an attractive online slide show of some beautiful wine cellars by a number of well known cellar designers (including their price tags). While all wine cellars should deliver the same basic function of protecting your wine collection in ideal climatic conditions, the sky’s the limit on the potential cost of creating one.

As cellar designer Paul Wyatt comments in the article, cellars are “a specific symbol of power, of success.” The cellar’s role as a status symbol has no doubt driven a meaningful part of the 35% annual growth in the industry for the past five years. According to Jim Deckebach, the founder of Wine Cellar Innovations, the custom cellar industry now generates $500 million in sales annually.

For some great ideas of what can be done, I recommend getting Wine Cellars: An Exploration of Stylish Storage.