Custom Home Wine Cellars

If you're looking for a dream wine cellar, Apex can create anything from a French chateau-style cave to a contemporary, state-of-the-art wine storage facility. Based in Woodinville, WA, but with regional offices across the United States and UK, Apex offers custom wine cellar designs, premium-quality racks, decorative accents, and a unique Cellartec Signature Series cooling system that will keep your precious wine collection at the ideal temperatures. The process begins with free consultations and drawings at home, or an Apex design showroom, and ends with a one-of-a-kind cellar you've always wanted.

Founder Evan Goldberg has taken his Bachelor of Architecture degree and 18 years' experience with a major practice, and turned them into a custom wine cellar business that combines the stringent principles of architecture with cutting-edge wine storage technology. As a collector of quality wines himself, Evan bases each custom design on the client's specific collection—taking into account crucial cooling, air temperature and humidity challenges, as well as lighting, noise levels and aesthetics—and builds with the highest quality materials from brick to ceramic tiles, stone, wood and glass. The results are outstanding.

While founder Kathleen Valentini and her creative team can design a Tuscan-inspired wine cellar in your basement, she also believes a wine collection doesn't have to be kept underground. In fact, most of the wine storage facilities she designs are in other areas of a house from a spare bedroom to part of the garage or a den, an ideal solution for empty-nesters who suddenly find themselves with more room. Kathleen, who is also founder of the Southern California Chapter of Women for Wine Sense, has a strong background in architecture, construction and wine, bringing many years of experience and expertise to all areas of the design process. Valentini's works with clients across the U.S., recently opened an office in Madrid, and can design cellars for anything up to 25,000 bottles.

When a wine authority like Robert M. Parker calls your designs “truly original,” you know you're on the right track. David Spon's Wine Cellar Concepts, located in Connecticut, has been creating high-end cellars and storage for what he calls “serious collectors” since the late 1980s. Overseeing every element of the design process from detailed plans to music systems, David can create a traditional cellar or glass-encased space next to a kitchen, dining room or library with hand-finished cabinets and other high-quality fittings. A cellar to hold between 2,000 and 9,000 bottles, he says, will cost from $100,000 to $270,000, depending on the space, design, materials and installation, excluding contractor costs, and can take anything between five and nine months. Well worth it.