If you’re in the market for wine cellar refrigeration equipment or wine racks, now may be the best time to purchase these items, before price increases take effect in coming weeks. 

CellarPro Cooling Systems will be increasing the prices of some of its units cooling from $49 to $99.  This price increase will become effective December 1, 2011.  Concurrently, CellarPro will make all of its wine cooling units “bottle probe ready”, which upgrade will lessen the sting of the impending price increase.

Wine Cellar Innovations will be increasing prices 10% across the board on all of its wine racks, wine cellar doors, wine cellar artwork, flooring etc. effective January 1, 2012. 

To get the best pricing before these increases take effect, call us toll-free at 877.888.9137 or contact us and we’ll get back to you within 1 business day.

Customers frequently ask if it’s Ok to build a wine cellar in a basement with concrete walls.  The answer is: as long as the concrete is sealed and the concrete walls are below grade, you can use uninsulated concrete walls in your cellar. But, pay attention to the thermal load in the cellar, which will rise significantly in warmer climates.

Te following table summarizes thermalsload under various conditions and configurations of below-grade wine cellars:

http://www.cellarprocoolingsystems.com/information-center_cp/cooling-unit-buying-guide/below-grade-wine-cellar-thermal-loads

For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Please visit our table at Pinot Days on June 27, 2010.  We hope to see you there!

Today we sent our customers an “opt-out” email message so that people who don’t want us to bother them can choose to opt-out of future emails from Le Cache – CellarPro – Sonoma Wine Accessories. It was not a phishing scam. For those people who opted out, our system automatically will deactivate their email addresses to protect them from future correspondence.

We place a high premium on respecting our customers’ privacy, and sending an “opt-out” email is a good standard procedure.

For questions about this topic, let me know!

The Wall Street Journal recently published an interesting article about champagne bubbles. 

According to the article, researchers at Columbia University found that carbonated bubbles (in sparkling wine, soda and beer) “activate our taste buds” and spray droplets of aromatic chemicals into the air. 

In addition, bubbles actually mix the beverage, which can affect its scent and flavor.  Bubbles absorb aromatic compounds from the liquid as they rise, and this constant convection of bubbles adds to the flavor of the beverage. 

The shape of the champagne glass can affect how thoroughly bubbles mix the beverage.  Bubbles appeared to mix champagne more completely in a narrow flute than in a coupe (a broader, more shallow glass.)

So when you break out the Dom on New Year’s Eve, pour the bubbly into flutes – and don’t miss the fragrant mist at the surface of the flute as the bubbles explode!

For this reason, it’s important to enjoy champagne in a glass with

 and narrow flutes are recommended to ensure thorough

We are proud to announce the creation of this public forum, where we will post and answer questions that we receive from wine collectors who are interested in learning more wine cellars, wine cabinets and proper wine storage and aging. This blog is sponsored by Le Cache Wine Cabinets, CellarPro Cooling Systems and Sonoma Wine Accessories.

Feel free to contact us, either by posting on this blog or contact us directly, if you have thoughts or suggestions to improve our sites, our products and/or our service.

Cheers!