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This book is dedicated to all of the wine buffs who have been enticed into the collection of fine wines only to discover that they have no suitable storage facility.
I thank Neil Carlson, Marie E. Desch, Erez Klein, Paul Provost, Richard Rubin, Robert C. Shepard, and Steve Weisler for critiquing drafts.
How and Why to Build a Wine Cellar, Fourth Edition
Text copyright 2007 Richard M. Gold, Ph.D.
First published in 1983, How and Why to Build a Passive Wine Cellar Second Edition published 1985, How and Why to Build a Wine Cellar. Reprinted 198693 Third Edition published 1996. Reprinted 2002
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright holder.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gold, Richard M.
How and why to build a wine cellar / Richard M. Gold. 4th ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-891267-00-0
ISBN-10: 1-891267-00-0
1. Wine cellars. 2. Wine and wine making. I. Wine Appreciation Guild (San Francisco, Calif.) II. Title.
TP548.G56 2006
641.22dc22
2006030560
Although all reasonable care has been taken in the preparation of this book, neither the author nor the publisher can accept liability for any consequences arising from the information contained herein, or from use thereof.
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This book was written in response to frustrations I experienced while building my own wine cellar. Id read an article by Terry Robards in the Sunday New York Times (he was their wine consultant at the time) that described home wine cellar construction as the most casual of undertakings. Frank Prial, Robards replacement at the Times, was equally causal about wine storage. Prial went so far as to recommend the garage as a good place to store wine (4/24/85, page C11). Most garages vie with uninsulated attics for my 5-star Award as the Worst Possible Place to Store Wine.
My home has a basement, and I have reasonably good aim with a hammer. After watching a carpenter build a stud wall, I confidently set aside a weekend for wine cellar construction. At that time it seemed unconscionable to hire a carpenter for such self-indulgence. Doing the work myself made the project morally acceptable, and promised to be fun as well. My advisor on the project worked behind the counter at the lumber yard. He meant well. I selected a convenient spot in the center of my basement near the furnace and laid out a generous 6 by 8 (1.8 by 2.4 m) room. Utilizing the techniques I had recently observed, I put up a 2 4 stud wall, stuffed it with 3 1/2 of fiberglass insulation, covered it with drywall, and installed a narrow pre-hung hollow core door.
Since wine cellars have been around for a lot longer than air conditioners, I spurned mechanical cooling. When I finished wine cellar #1 in February, 1979, its temperature was an ideal 55F (13C). Following the purchasing advice of my loquacious wine merchant, I began to collect the then highly regarded but now maligned 75 Bordeaux which had recently been released.
The following summer my cellars temperature rose to nearly 70F (21C). I hurriedly chopped a hole in the wine cellar wall and installed a small (5000 BTU) window-type air conditioner to move heat from the wine cellar into the adjacent basement. My troubles, unfortunately, were just beginning. As soon as the temperature got down to 60F (15C), the coils of the air conditioner iced up, preventing further airflow. Room air conditioners are not designed to operate at such low temperatures. By directing the cold-air stream from the air conditioner at a wall-mounted supplementary air conditioning thermostat, I was able to get it to run in 30 second bursts, which prevented further ice-ups. The following year I tacked two inches (R-10) of polystyrene to the outside of my wine cellar, but the air conditioner, although it ran less frequently, was still needed.
For the next two years I gave up summer vacations for fear that the air conditioner would ice up again or that a fuse would blow while I was away. I had also neglected to mount the air conditioner high enough to permit gravity powered removal of the condensate via a hose. I did not trust my neighbor to remember to empty the pan full of water that the air conditioner deposited every summer day. I never revealed to my family that my once casual interest in wine now required daily attention. Wine cellar #1 was, in retrospect, under-insulated, under-sized, under-vapor barriered, and inappropriately sited. My 75s would probably not be drinkable for 10 years. Something had to be done.
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