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Design Committee
Lisa Weiss
The Wine Cellar Company
(703) 992-WINE (9463)
www.WineCellarsbyLisa.com
The Wine Cellar
The first thing you want to think about for a wine cellar is how to maintain a consistent temperature to age your wine properly. Because we are looking at 55-58 degrees, an underground cellar is ideal. Unfortunately most homes today do not have a space with these conditions, so we naturally migrate to the use of refrigeration to cool the space. As a Green concept, we want to find the best way to cool the space naturally, without refrigeration. Using reclaimed materials can also add to the nostalgia of the cellar and keep us within our concept. Underground walls, materials and insulation become a key element to keeping a temperature down in a cellar. Stay tuned to see how we turn this not so ideal location into a space that keeps wine at a cooler temperature, using materials that are rarely used in a wine cellar.
Lisa Weiss owns and operates the Wine Cellar Company out of McLean, Va. and is an award winning wine cellar designer in the Washington DC area. She now travels across the country designing wine cellars for her most prominent clients. She has been featured in Home & Design, Chesapeake Home, Washingtonian, Washington Spaces and the Fairfax County Times.
