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Wine Cellar Flooring

By Gregory Dal Piaz

A cellar can get by just fine with the unfinished cement floor, especially if you’re in a very well drained area. My cellar floor is laid over very thin...

August 31, 2010
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Wine Cellar Vapor Barriers

By Gregory Dal Piaz

Once you’ve built your walls you’ll need to add a vapor barrier. The vapor barrier serves to prevent the cooled air from the cellar from leaking into the...

August 31, 2010
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How to Build a Wine Cellar

By Gregory Dal Piaz

We all love the idea of having a dedicated cellar, a distinct shrine, er, room to store our treasured bottles. So, what does it really take to convert part...

August 31, 2010
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Building Wine Cellar Walls

By Gregory Dal Piaz

When it comes to building a wine cellar there are basically two choices. You can either repurpose an existing room or section off some space inside of it....

August 31, 2010
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Wine Cellar Ceilings and Lighting

By Gregory Dal Piaz

Now that you’ve built your beautiful walls, don’t neglect your ceiling! It requires the same treatment that you walls did. Installing a vapor barrier...

August 31, 2010
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Wine Cellar Windows and Doors

By Gregory Dal Piaz

If you have a window opening into your cellar, you might want to consider sealing it off, or using it to vent any cooling unit you might use for the space....

August 31, 2010
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Weekly Wine News Roundup

By Jesse Chemtob

News from the world of wine for the week beginning August 23, 2010.

August 30, 2010 in Commentary
John Gilman on Ch. Magdelaine

By View From the Cellar

Château Magdelaine is quite simply my very favorite estate in all of St. Emilion, and probably would rank in my top five producers from the entire Bordeaux...

August 30, 2010 in Winery Profiles
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Best in the Midwest

By Carly Wray

They'll come from St. Louis and Smithville and Manhattan, Kansas, bearing bitters and shakers and, in at least one case, cucumber-skin-laced melon balls on...

August 27, 2010 in
Kunde Family Estate

California, and especially the Bay Area, has a long, glorious history of family-run wineries. There's a lot of history laying around the region but with so...

August 26, 2010 in Winery Profiles
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