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We will walk you through the key aspects to consider when planning and designing a wine cellar, ensuring that it is both functional and visually appealing.

Creating the perfect wine cellar for your clients requires careful planning and a thorough understanding of their needs.

  • We solve complex M&E challenges, saving you time and your client money.
  • We troubleshoot in advance, ensuring the cellar will be both functional and beautiful.
  • Our planning and design process includes preparing models that integrate within your GA’s.

Find out how we can offer a 5 year parts warranty on our specialist wine cabinet and wine wall evaporator coils, when the industry standard is 1-2 years.

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Find out why architects, and M&E consultants come to us to solve the most complex climate-control projects.

Key Information

Critical Room Preparation & Considerations:

Thermal Insulation

We recommend using PIR insulation to walls, floors and ceilings, with a minimum U-Value of 0.34 W/m2 K

Doors & Glazing

We recommend double or triple-glazed panels and doors, if possible, for better temperature control and energy efficiency. Single glazed frameless glass can be suitable in some instances, however site specific advice will be required.

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Thermal Breaks & Other
Heat Sources

Keep all forms of heating away from the wine storage area and ensure underfloor heating has thermal breaks or sufficient clearance

Vapour Barrier

A vapour or moisture barrier is fundamental to any mechanically cooled wine room to form a complete hermetically sealed envelope.

Sinks

Fit sinks and drainage with waterless traps, such as HepvO.

When determining the appropriate location for your clients wine cellar or wine display wall, the following considerations should be made:

  • Understanding and avoiding unsuitable locations
    • Proximity to natural sunlight and other heat or high humidity sources should be considered and either avoided, or mitigated against.
  • Feasibility check of proposed climate control setup
    • Consider if council planning is required. Ensure that it is possible to run services between the indoor and outdoor unit, as well as implement all first-fix service requirements such as water supply, power and a gravity drain.
  • Determine the available space
    • Consider the footprint you can practically dedicate to wine storage.
      This may dictate whether a wine room or wine wall is most suitable.
      Contact your wine cellar specialist for information on set-out recommendations.
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Considerations such as wine collection and lifestyle:

Wine collection:

  • Desired bottle capacity?
  • Determine percentage of collection for cellaring (temp) and percentage for serving (temp). Note – generally domestic clients would want the majority of their wine stored at safe cellaring 13-15 c’, and a small proportion of whites/sparkling at 5-7c’. Hospitality clients may require a higher percentage at serving temperature.
  • Is the aim to maximise capacity or create a stunning showcase design?
  • Will you keep some of your collection in bonded warehouse storage? (advisable if you may resell your wine)

Lifestyle preferences:

  • Would you prefer your wine to be showcased on display within your entertaining space, or stored within a dedicated room?
  • Do you prefer to sit inside your wine room (coat on) for a spot of wine tasting, or would you rather be seated just outside in a more comfortable ambient environment?

Speak with the team at Cellar Maison for the full comprehensive list of client questions.

Overview of the most common first-fix service:

First Fix by Main Contractor:

  • Single phase power supply for climate control (check loading requirements with your cellar specialist)
  • Water supply (for humidity control)
  • Drain/s for condensate waste water
  • Lighting feed/s for in-joinery lighting
  • Clear pipe route for refrigeration pipework via agreed route between indoor and outdoor units
  • Internet connection with RJ45 plug for web-based monitoring & controls.
  • Any other required alterations to walls and/or ceiling.

First Fix by Wine Cellar Specialist:

  • Refrigeration pipe work between indoor and outdoor unit & carry out pressure test
  • Controller cables running from agreed controller location to evaporator location

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In summary, as a trade professional, leveraging the support and expertise of Cellar Maison, will save you time, mitigate risk, and facilitate a partnership that enables a well planned and seamless end to end project.

We work across high-end residential and hospitality sectors, and take on projects throughout New Zealand, UK, Europe and Australia.

We also provide consultancy and design services for locations further afield. If you are looking at incorporating a wine cellar within your overall scheme, do get in touch with the team at Cellar Maison, who will be happy to help.

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