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Let Gabriel's Wine Cellars Help You Select The Right Furnishings For Your Custom Wine Cellar

GABRIEL'S PUTS YOU ON TRACK TO AN ATTRACTIVE, TROUBLE-FREE WINE CELLAR

Gabriel's Wine Cellars, Inc. can help you decide what kind of wine cellar is best for the kinds of wine you enjoy, the kind of entertaining you do, and the varieties of wine in which you choose to invest.

Wine is alive! Wines stored in the home -- whether upstairs or down in the basement -- will suffer from variations in ambient temperature and humidity. Even subtle temperature fluctuations will harm wine.

Wine that is hot will force itself out of the cork. Wine that's too cold will suffer during aging.

Too little humidity can cause corks to shrink, causing leakage, oxidation and complete spoilage. Too much will cause labels to drop off bottles and encourage mold.

And while these problems can be just nuisances to the casual wine drinker, they can be devastating to wine collectors who see their inventory as an investment.
Some people have general contractors with little experience or forethought build them basement wine storage areas. Storage under these conditions can be fatal to living wine, and the design may do little to relate the wine storage area to the home interior or lifestyle of the client.

Instead, let Gabriel's Wine Cellars help you select the right equipment and accessories for your new custom wine cellar. We take our clients step-by-step through the process of building a wine cellar.

This will include selection of dedicated refrigeration and humidification equipment suited for the client's home mechanical systems, plus determination of the right amount of insulation and vapor barrier for that equipment and the cellar location.

We'll also help you select the right wine racking systems that will fit each customer's wine cellar needs and available space. We'll help you choose racking systems that can include floor-to-ceiling systems, sliding wood case racks, or accommodations for single bottles and champagne. They can include open diamond bins and large-format displays for those big bottles.

We'll guide you through the right countertop, paneling and flooring material choices in all materials including stone, tile and natural wood that will further complement your racking.

We know of exciting, modern features -- such as hand-actuated or retinal-scan access control, or digital environmental monitoring and data storage -- that will lend a subtle high-tech touch to a custom wine cellar and tasting room redolent of Old World appeal.

When it comes time to put it all together, our expert, specialty craftsmen will put their experience -- gathered after dozens of custom wine cellar installations -- to work for you in making your dream wine cellar a reality.
And when your cellar is a reality, we will help you select wines for stocking, and help match the right stemware to those wines, for complete enjoyment now and in the years to come.

For all these reasons, clients have been trusting Gabriel's Wine Cellars, Inc. with designing, building and stocking their custom cellars since 1998. Let us do the same for you.

PLEASE CONTACT

Gabriel Viti, Proprietor

Gabriel's Wine Cellars, Inc.
Gabriel's Restaurant
Highwood, Ill.

voice 847.432.0031
fax 847.433.7499

info@egabriels.com