Are you a seasoned wine connoisseur with a need to display and protect your extensive selection of wine? Or perhaps you’re an aspiring sommelier who wants to give a little more love and attention to your growing collection? In either case, it may be time to consider adding some dedicated wine storage options to your home. From expertly crafted modern wine cabinets to intricately designed custom wine cellars, there are options for every type of collection and collector.
But how do you get started? First, you’re going to want to ask yourself a few key questions about your wine storage needs like:
- What is the purpose of your wine room? Is it primarily for presentation, preservation, or consumption?
- What are your plans for your wine collection? Are you holding onto bottles for long-term maturation? For sale? Or do you just want to make sure they’re at their best to be shared with guests?
- What types of wine will you be storing, and what are their specific storage needs?
With these questions answered, you’ll know better whether you want to go the route of designing a full wine room, or if you’d rather incorporate custom wine storage into an existing space like your kitchen.
Full Wine Rooms
If you are someone with an extensive wine collection with an eye toward long-term preservation, a full wine room is the way to go. Your wine room design can be fully customized to meet the needs of your collection, starting with climate-control options that help your wine room maintain the optimal temperature and humidity at all times.
A wine room is not just a room with wine in it. A truly well-designed wine room will not only be designed to take in the humidity and temperature considerations outlined above, but it will also need to have a special door installed with a good seal to help maintain the optimal conditions inside.
And of course, just because the primary purpose of your wine room is storage doesn’t mean you won’t still want to display your collection in the most aesthetically pleasing way for guests who will inevitably ask to take a peek inside. To that end, you’ll want to use glass doors in conjunction with shelving to protect the bottles while also still leaving them visible.
When it comes to lighting, you’ll need both task lighting (i.e. the lights you turn on when you first walk into a room to see) and ambient lighting (i.e. specialty lighting that you use to highlight certain design features or parts of the collection) to truly illuminate your space. For this, you’ll want to use LEDs that create virtually no heat so as not to affect the quality of the wine. An experienced wine room designer will also take lighting into account as they design the space, as UV emissions can potentially alter the wines.
Not sure if your collection merits a full wine room? Your wine room doesn’t have to be huge! In fact, we’ve seen beautiful wine rooms done in the style of a butler’s pantry, decked out with all the lighting, humidity & temperature control, and storage options we’ve listed above.
Or, you can integrate your wine display right into your living room, as you can see in this beautiful example:
But if a full wine room just doesn’t seem right for your collection, that’s okay! At NOLI we have extensive experience creating beautiful wine storage options that fit seamlessly into the existing spaces of your Cincinnati home.
Integrated Wine Storage with Modern Wine Cabinets
Signore e signori, let us introduce you to the modern wine cabinet! If you’re looking to store a less extensive collection, one of these beautiful, custom solutions integrated directly into your Cincinnati kitchen is the way to go.
As you can see in the example above from our NOLI portfolio, modern wine storage design uses custom paneling on a dedicated appliance to store your wine collection. Using sealed glass doors and paneling that fit in seamlessly with your other cabinets, you can use these appliances for all your wine storage needs.
As with all modern design, the key to modern wine cabinet design is for your custom wine cabinets to blend in with the rest of your kitchen, with integrated lighting that you can use to display or show off your wines as needed.
Ready to get started on your luxury wine storage solution?
At NOLI, we have experience working with clients to display their wine collections. We start by designing a custom cabinet with integrated, hidden appliances specific to your collection and storage needs, then use our master craftsmen to install the cabinetry seamlessly into your space. Want to know more? Use our contact form or stop by our Cincinnati showroom to get started.
