Installing A Wine Cellar Adds Value To A Luxury Home
Compared to swimming pools, high-maintenance landscaping, and pricey entertainment systems, a wine cellar adds more dollar-for-dollar value. Swimming, landscaping, and entertainment are all important, but do not forget the value of a wine cellar. Trading in fine wines, stored in a wine cellar may add value, whereas all the others things needed for a five-star luxury home are only expenses.
Drinking Fine Wine is Delicious, Trading Fine Wine is Fun
Most of us enjoy a glass of fine wine with dinner. Those with refined tastes get to know their wines well. They learn about the best varietals, the years with delightful vintages, and they always have a great bottle of wine at hand to share with friends at a dinner party.
Because the flavor of red wines improves over time, keeping bottles for future enjoyment is a great idea. However, they need pristine conditions in order age properly. An elegant, well-designed, climate-controlled wine cellar is necessary for keeping wines. If one is clever and puts away in storage the best vintages, the wines become more valuable over time. The older the wine gets, the rarer it becomes, and the more valuable it becomes, especially if the vintage won accolades. Keeping wine as a “hobby” is super when the hobby pays for itself, because there is a robust aftermarket in the trading of rare fine wines.
The UK Daily Mail reports the assumption that as a wine gets older it gets more expensive is true for the best wines. The top-ten most expensive wines in the world range in price from around US$3,500 per bottle to over $US$180,000 per bottle. These are collector wines and only increase in price each year. Some of these fine wines come from vintages during the 1970s, others are from as recent as 2005. The most expensive bottle is from a 2009 vintage and is a special edition 12-liter bottle of Chateau Margaux.
A single bottle of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Montrachet Grand Cru 1999 vintage bought for less than US$100 in 1999, sold at auction for US$1,000 per bottle in 2008 and closer to US$4,000 per bottle in 2014. That’s a 300% investment return in a seven-year period or an average of over 40% return per year. During this same time, Bank CDs were paying only 1 or 2% per year. For certain, one wouldn’t want to put a bottle of that fine wine in a shoebox and store it under the bed. That would ruin it. Therefore, to keep fine wine, one needs a wine cellar.
Wine Cellars are not Necessarily Underground
Before the advent of refrigeration, the only way to achieve a constant cool temperature was to dig below the frost line into the earth and reach a place where the temperature stays the same year round. Wine cellar construction included digging then using stone and timbers to hold up the walls.
Modern wine cellar installation overcomes this obstacle. With convenient climate-control technology, these exquisite wine cellars are built anywhere. Many wines age very well at room temperatures that is comfortable for living, so wine cellar also becomes an attractive addition to a luxury home to display the wine collection in an elegant fashion. Bottles are stored in racks on a tilt downwards in order to keep the cork from deteriorating by drying out. Wine cellars also add to home re-sale value. Harkraft creates some of the most beautiful custom wine cellars anyone has ever seen.
Wine Cellars are not Necessarily Big
Storing a few bottles or thousands of them, depends on personal taste and budget. The choices include wine shelves, wine racks, wine cabinets, and full room wine cellars. All of these options are customizable to exact specifications. Intricate designs and use of fine woods in wine cellar construction make attractive solutions for keeping these precious wines in a style that is suitable for both storage and aesthetic enjoyment. Accessories added to a wine cellar installation creates a space for holding wine-tasting events in comfort. Designing a wine cellar is almost as fun as drinking the wine itself.
Wine Cellars Promote Family Tradition
Even if one does not desire to benefit from trading in wines, there is a wonderful family tradition that is sufficient reason alone to have a wine cellar. Here is how it works. During the year of marriage, the birth of each of your children, or the birth of grandchildren or any other pivotal year in a life, select and buy twelve bottles of the finest red wines affordable. Then put this case of wine in the wine cellar, store it properly for twenty-one years and on the 21st birthday of the child give them their case or open the bottles one by one each year for your wedding anniversary starting after the seventh year. Who knows, but by having this fine wine to share over the years might even save your marriage!
About Harkraft
Harkraft has a fifty-year history of serving satisfied customers with delivery and/or installation anywhere within the thirteen county Twin Cities Metro area of Minneapolis – St. Paul and will ship to anywhere in the United States. Harkraft President Warren Eck says, “When homeowners realize an area in their basement can become a climate-controlled showplace for as little as $3,000, it’s a welcome addition to their plan.”