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  • Cork Course II: Wine Cellar At Home 
    Reported by: Shalah Sasse

    Friday, Nov 6, 2009 @06:39pm CST

    Through these iron doors, a sweet setting awaits. And for David Carson, he can spend time here whenever he wants.

    "It's not unusual to come in and pick a bottle and want to taste it before we go and sit or go elsewhere in the home," David Carson said.

    Carson says when he built his new house, a wine cellar was one of the priorities on the list. He says they wanted a place to gather with friends and talk about the different wines they've experienced throughout their travels. Carson's new wine cellar holds 1,030 bottles of wine.

    "The categorization to keep your wines and what I would call a staging process. A lot of people think I'll just save this bottle and five years late they go, 'oh, I have this bottle, where's it at?' So from that standpoint it's an organizational thing to keep your wines in rotation," Carson said.

    Randy Sheffer of Sheffer Construction and Development says this is the first wine cellar he's ever built. Some of the features include a display case where the owners can show the bottles they've collected, and a wine tasting area.

    "And you've got the sampling area at the same time where the client could come in and not just pull a bottle of wine out and take it to another room, but you could actually physically come into the room and have a drink and sample some of the fine wines that he collects here," Randy Sheffer said.

    But there's more. One of the unique features of this wine cellar is the cooler room. David says he keeps the temperature between 57 and 61 degrees to preserve the wine.

    This wine cellar is filled with detail. Hickory trim, slate tile, a waterfall wine rack, granite counter tops, and the Carson name is even projected on the wall. Sheffer says there's not much else you could put in this room.

    "It became more than just a construction job, more than just a project. Everybody put their heart into it," Sheffer said.

    He says there aren't a lot of wine cellars in the Tri-State area, but thinks it will be an upcoming trend. Carson says a typical wine cellar can cost between $20-25,000 to build.
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