The owner of one of the most prestigious restaurants in Richardson, Texas, needed help in building a modern and impressive wine cellar next to the bar and dining area. The owner wanted to attract customers to purchase their wines. For many years, Wine Cellar Specialists, one of our dealers in wine cellar construction, has been helping commercial establishments that sell wine, boost their sales.   

How a Well-Designed Wine Cellar Can Benefit Restaurants in Richardson, Texas

Commercial wine cellars are in demand, not only in restaurants, but also in hotels, bars, and retail stores. The benefits they offer to the owners include proper product presentation, better organization of wines, optimum storage, and increased revenue.

Eye-Catching Product Presentation and Improved Overall Wine Sales

If you’re a restaurant owner, a proper and exceptional presentation of wines will help drive more sales by attracting potential customers. A mediocre wine display will not catch the attention of the clients.

They may dine in your restaurant, but may not take the time to check out the wines stored on regular shelves in the bar area.

With a stunning wine display, you are providing the diners a good perception of your products. It will encourage them to take a look at your wines in stock and may end up in a purchase.

Better Organization of Wines and Maximum Storage Capacity

Experts don’t recommend storing bottles in cardboard boxes or ordinary shelves in your restaurant. You can better organize your wines in stock according to size or variety if you have a well-designed racking system.

Commercial wine racks will maximize the storage capacity of your space. Ask your builder to customize your racking, so it perfectly fits your wine room and the various bottle sizes in your collection.

Installation of a Modern Wine Cellar for Jasper’s Restaurant at Cityline in Richardson, Texas

Wine Cellar Specialists, an experienced builder of wine rooms, recently completed a contemporary wine cellar installation project in Jasper’s Restaurant. They had to utilize the room next to the bar and dining area of the establishment. The wine room can display a total of 864 bottles lying on their sides.

The architect of the restaurant provided Wine Cellar Specialists with the dimensions of the room. The features of the wine cellar include black anodized aluminum framing, sleek metal racking, and glass enclosure (dual panes and tempered).

Sleek Wine Rack Features for a Small Wine Room

The type of wine racks you use to showcase wine products has a significant impact on the overall sales of the restaurant. At Wine Cellar Specialists, they always make sure they provide a racking solution that will suit the size of the room and aesthetic needs of the client.

On this project, they utilized Platinum Series metal wine racks from Vintage View.

Metal is the most suitable material for commercial wine displays. Its minimalist appeal can bring any-sized room into a wine cellar that can “wow” customers.

Floor-to-Ceiling and Wall-Mounted Metal Wine Racks

When you enter this commercial wine cellar in Richardson, Texas, the first set of wine racks that greets you has a floor to ceiling height.

It is a triple-deep storage unit and is visible from the bar and dining area. At the other side of the glass panel is a single-bottle deep storage rack.

When facing the front racking, the wall on the left consists of wall-mounted metal wine racks that are also 3-bottles deep. This type of racking (wall-mounted) can bring any bare wall to life.

Additionally, it does not occupy floor space, making it ideal for tiny wine rooms. At the back section of the wall is another single-deep wine rack, also mounted on the left wall.

Advantages of Vintage View Metal Wine Racks

Vintage View is one of the most reliable providers of innovative racking solutions.

Their wine racks suit the needs of restaurant owners who want to have a wine cellar with contemporary features.

When it comes to durability, Vintage View wine rack systems are a top choice.

Their label forward orientation provides easy access to wines. Since the wine labels are facing out, the customers don’t need to spend much time looking for a specific type of wine.

With other wine rack designs, which hide the labels, the clients will need to pull out the bottle from the rack. This will disturb the wine’s sediments and may alter its flavors.

Moreover, Vintage View wine storage units also provide convenience for easy wine inventory and management.

Efficient Cooling Unit for Proper Preservation of Wine

Every cellar must have a reliable climate control system to ensure that the wines will reach proper maturation. Without it, wine on sale will deteriorate easily. When this happens, your restaurant will have a bad reputation to clienteles.

Customers who bought a bad bottle of wine from your restaurant may never purchase again in the future. They may even spread the news to their friends and colleagues.

This will have a negative effect on your business profit. It is very important that you seek the help of a wine storage expert to help maintain a stable environment in your wine cellar. After all, the quality of your products will reflect your business.

A careful assessment of the client’s needs helped Wine Cellar Specialists determine the correct cooling system for Jasper’s Restaurant walk-in wine storage room.

Ducted –Split Wine Refrigeration System

The refrigeration unit used for this commercial wine cellar construction project in Richardson, Texas, was the HS (High Static Series) 10000 model manufactured by US Cellar Systems. It is a ducted split system, so there was a need to connect the unit to ductwork.

Wine Cellar Specialists placed the evaporator above the ceiling for ease of maintenance. This also helped maximize the room’s capacity because the equipment does not occupy any space in the cellar. The supply and return vent are also in the ceiling.

A ducted split wine cooling system is also recommended for restaurant owners who don’t want a visible piece of equipment in their cellar. Since the compressor (the noisier component of the refrigeration system) is on the upper level of the restaurant, there is minimal noise in the cellar.

Invest in a High-Quality Wine Display in Your Restaurant. Work with an Expert.

Display your wines with elegance to increase the profit of your restaurant. Wine Cellar Specialists designs and installs commercial wine cellars in the Texas areas, including Richardson, San Antonio, and Dallas. Call them today at +1 (866 ) 646-7089!

Meeting the Client and Starting the Project

The Coto de Caza Golf and Racquet Club is among the finest private clubhouses in Orange County, California.  The 36-hole country club features a 44,000 square foot clubhouse thatis an ideal setting for weddings, business meetings, and private parties.  The club recently remodeled Preserve, their upscale dining room, to include a 1,380-bottle capacity wine enclave, where members can store and display their private collections.

In November 2013, Coastal Custom Wine Cellars was contacted by an architectural firm in San Diego, California.  They wanted to add a glass covered custom wine enclave to the newly remodeled Preserve Dining Room.  The room measures 11’ wide, 2’ deep and about 9’ tall.  After several consultations, and a couple of site visits, Coastal prepared a three dimensional design.

A 3D wine celalar design work from Coastal provides a three dimensional illustration of the proposed wine cellar design.  The wine cellar design package includes plan views (elevations and 3D views), total bottle capacities, construction guidelines, and an audio/video tour of the design.

The Wine Cellar Design Features

Stunning Metal Wine Rack Displays

Coastal Custom Wine Cellars, SoCal’s leading expert in wine cellar design and construction, created a climate-controlled commercial display wine room, encased in glass, that features VintageView metal wine rack displays.

Three sets of seamless 1/2″ glass doors provide access to the wine enclave.  To stabilize the climate conditions inside the wine storage space, the Coastal team recommended a Model D088 from Wine Guardian.

Unlike wood-based wine racks, metal wine rack displays provide a contemporary look that will go well with any modern interior.  VintageView metal wine rack displays are designed to hold bottles in a label forward orientation, allowing for ease of product recognition.

The horizontal placement of the bottles also helps maintain the continuous contact of the cork with the wine, thereby ensuring its sealing quality.

To increase the total bottle capacity of the custom wine enclave Coto de Caza CA, the Coastal team installed metal wine displays in single and triple deep configurations.

Triple depth wine racks can hold three bottles in a single row; two wine bottles are stored behind the visible bottle.

The metal wine racks are mostly label forward horizontal displays.  A presentation row running the width of the racking system was also installed, for showcasing the finest wine bottles in the collection.

The metal wine rack displays come in a black satin finish, to give them a stainless steel effect.  A three deep configuration wine display rack is located right in front of the series of glass doors that lead to the wine enclosure.

Single deep display racking is installed on the rear, fixed glass panel.  The wine rack design is set up in such a way that the bottles appear as if they are floating when viewed from the outside.

Tempered Glass Walls and Doors

The Coto de Caza Golf and Racquet Club contemporary wine cellar display is encased in seamless 1/2″ tempered glass walls and doors.

The glass covered custom wine enclave is an aesthetically pleasing addition to the clubhouse’s Preserve Dining Room.  The heavy duty glass doors are hinged on self-closing, commercial grade pivot sets.

Installating the Wine Cellar Cooling Unit

To maintain the ideal wine storage temperature of 58 degrees Fahrenheit and a relative humidity between 50 to 60 percent, the Coastal team recommended a self-contained air duct handler, by Wine Guardian.

After conducting a heat load calculation, it was determined that the Model D088 wine cellar cooling unit would most efficiently cool the glass encased wine cellar.

Wine Guardian is a world-renowned manufacturer and provider of wine cellar cooling solutions.  Their wine cellar cooling products provide whisper-quiet operation and superior cooling performance.  They offer different types of cooling systems, including through the wall units, split cooling systems, ducted units, and humidifiers.

The Model D088 is a self-contained, fully ducted wine cellar cooling unit, that is ideal for medium to large residential and commercial wine cellars.  This cooling unit not only provides optimum temperature and humidity control, but also adds to the aesthetic quality of the wine storage space.

Since this wine cellar cooling unit can be ducted up to 25 feet away from the wine enclosure, it eliminates the presence of mechanical equipment in the room, thus promoting a quiet storage environment.

For this particular project, the cooling unit was placed in the ceiling.  Installing the climate control unit out of sight eliminates any presence of mechanical equipment in the custom wine enclave Coto de Caza CA, and allows the wine cellar builder to maximize available space.  Ceiling mounted units also provide better air distribution and circulation.

About the Wine Cellar Builder

Coastal Custom Wine Cellar Builder has over ten years of experience in designing and building commercial and residential wine cellars in California, and throughout the country.  They provide all aspects of wine storage needs, including wine cellar cooling systems, wood and metal based wine racking, wine cellar doors, and wine cellar flooring.

If you have a wine cellar project in mind, just contact Coastal Custom Wine Cellars. Click here.

Custom wine cellars Miami Florida are increasingly becoming the most sought after feature in residential homes.  A residential wine cellar is a stylish, yet functional addition to the home.  It is designed to provide a stable environment, wherein wines can age accordingly, and at the same time serve as a showcase area for a large variety of wine bottles.

Wine Cellar International recently completed a custom residential wine cellar project for a client in Aventura North Miami, Florida.  The goal was to create a contemporary wine cellar with a total storage capacity of 800 to 1,000 wine bottles.  The design team at WCI combined different wine rack configurations with varying depths to maximize the room’s limited space, as well as provide an efficient storage and display method.

The back wall, situated right across a large window, serves as the main focal point of this residential wine cellar North Miami Florida.  It features wood finish horizontal storage sections that present wine bottles in a label forward orientation and allow wines to be stored three deep.  The label forward nature of the display rack promotes clear visibility of wine labels, thus making it easier for wine collectors to search for a particular bottle.

Just below the label forward storage sections of this contemporary wine cellar is a high reveal display row that pitches wine bottles to a 15 degree angle, with their labels facing forward.  The addition of an LED lighting fixture behind the valance illuminates the different bottles featured on the display row and makes for a stunning visual element to this residential wine cellar North Miami Florida.

The lower part of the back wall features double deep diamond bin configurations that significantly increase the storage capacity of this custom wine cellars Miami Florida project.  The diamond bin is a traditional method of storing wines in bulk.  It can accommodate large quantities of wine bottles of different formats.  This racking configuration is an excellent management tool for wine collectors who like to purchase wine in case lots.

The designers also decided to integrate a stemware rack into the back wall display, along with a serving area.  The stemware holder allows collectors to hang their stemware or glassware within easy reach.  The matching countertop area is sealed with a stain, to be in sync with the overall look of the residential wine cellar North Miami Florida.

To add visual appeal to this contemporary wine cellar, label forward racking systems and a high reveal wine display were installed right next to the glass window.  The display rack with a high reveal feature is flanked by floor to ceiling metal wine racks.  Below, the high reveal wine displays provide additional storage in a horizontal orientation.

The addition of metal wine racking solutions to this custom wine cellars Miami Florida project not only provides optimum storage capacity, but also completes the contemporary look of the residential wine cellar.  Wine racks constructed from metal components provide stunning wine displays, and their floor to ceiling configuration allows wine collectors to utilize what would have been unused areas in their wine storage space.

All in all, the Aventura North Miami Florida wine cellar project combines functionality and elegance, and a testament to Wine Cellar International’s quality of work and excellent customer service.  Truly, they are Florida’s premier designer and builder of custom wine cellars.