When you think about building your wine cellar in Houston TX, do you automatically imagine the typical style of dark wooden racks with matching hardwood floors? Designing an original, compelling wine cellar can be a daunting task, but not for the experienced craftsmen at Vineyard Wine Cellars in Houston. Let us introduce you to the unique option of French limestone wine alcoves. With our expert design team, you will find that limestone alcoves may be just the thing to create the wine cellar of your dreams.
The alcoves are cast stone made from limestone dust quarried in Comblanchien in the Burgundy region of France. The cast stone is a combination of Old World appeal with clean, modern lines that look as perfectly in place in an underground wine cave-type cellar as they do in a rustic, country cellar.
The thermal qualities of the limestone are such that the ambient room temperature of the wine cellar is absorbed into the stone and from the stone, into the bottles. This creates a uniform cold chamber in which the wine can age.
The cast limestone has a structural stability that reduces bottle vibrations and allows the wine to settle. This means that your wine can mature to its fullest potential undisturbed creating a wine that is nuanced and complex.
The cost of cast limestone can be less than the cost of custom-made wooden racks and because the stone alcoves allow for reverse racking of bottles, you will be able to store more bottles of wine per square foot than you would with a wooden rack system.
The reverse racking of bottles means that not only will you be able to store more wine in your wine cellar, you will further stabilize the wine because the thinnest and most sensitive parts of the bottles, the necks, are positioned at the centers of the alcoves. This means more protection from the shock of even the slightest temperature changes and from light exposure. Reverse racking also means that your bottle labels are always visible and can be read without moving the bottles.
Once installed, the limestone alcoves can be stained or have a faux finish applied to match the rest of your wine cellar in Houston TX.
The metal gates and doors that secure your wine cellar will not only complement the look of the cast limestone but will further stabilize the room to minimize vibrations.
In the past, limestone alcoves for wine storage were once the exclusive domain of French wineries but today they are available to the home wine connoisseur to provide the European standard of bottle aging. When you make the decision to build your wine cellar in Houston TX, visit our Vineyard Wine Cellars website at www.vineyardwinecellars.com to see a gallery of our completed projects. Then call us at 866-973-1100 to make an appointment for a consultation.
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Vineyard Wine Cellars
15020 Beltway Dr.
Addison, Texas 75001
866-973-1100 972-712-9600
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