How did your wine collection get started? You began drinking wine with friends, attended wine tastings at wineries, then joined a wine club and suddenly, you find yourself building a collection. You might start with a small wine rack, then a wine fridge and eventually think, "I really need a wine cellar."
This is when Cellar Masters’ Owner Scott Berry receives those calls. The homeowner or business owner contacts him with an idea, and Scott, along with his team, collaborates to find the ideal climate-controlled solution. Having design and build services in-house at Cellar Masters helps ensure project quality and keeps the project on schedule. During the initial walkthrough at the home or business, you might find it’s an existing room, a closet or a basement in a historic home, a country club or a restaurant in Beverly Hills. Sometimes, it’s right within the homeowner’s living space, like a wine wall in the dining room, kitchen, family room or den. Cellar Masters calls these wine features, where you can enjoy and view your collection conveniently every day.
“I just love the challenge of creating something amazing and really enjoy the design process with our clients, seeing how excited they get when they realize they have enough space to create one,”says Scott.
Cellar Masters was founded in 1990 with the goal of sitting down with clients, listening to their needs and creating a climate-controlled wine storage experience they can enjoy every day. As passionate wine collectors, winemakers and restaurateurs, their design-build team uses its knowledge and experience to craft wine features tailored to each client’s specific needs.
Cellar Masters recently finished a wine feature in a home in North Ranch, designed to create an impressive cellar where the homeowner can enjoy viewing their collection from the home bar on one side of the wall and choosing their favorite wine from the kitchen on the other. The oil-rubbed bronze steel frames included locking, dual-pane glass and adjoining doors that swing open, revealing their 587-bottle mahogany-capacity cellar (326 750ml bottles, 21 1.5L bottles and 20 case storage) with triple-deep side-label display racking and LED lighting.
“It turned out beautiful, and the homeowner was so pleased with the results,” says Scott. “One of the wine cellar projects I always find to be very creative and fun to design is when we install one under the stairs, whether large or small. It’s about how many bottles we can fit, how to access it and how to keep it climate-controlled,” he notes. “Sometimes this is the only space within the home that is available.”
Protect Your Wine Collection
Whether you're a winemaker, collector or restaurateur, storing your wine collection is always a concern. Keeping wines at the right temperature and ensuring easy access are essential. Cellar Masters offers climate-controlled storage at their Newbury Park location, ranging from 12 to 250 cases per locker, including custom wine lockers and a concierge service to handle all your wine club deliveries.
Call Cellar Masters at 805.375.5040 or visit CellarMastersInc.com to learn more about their services and see their work.
“I just love the challenge of creating something amazing and really enjoy the design process with our clients."