It's the quickest, easiest and most cost effective way of building a wine cellar for your house. A watertight, pre-cast cylindrical system that's sunk into the ground, it can be located anywhere from kitchen to conservatory, workshop to study. It can be installed into an existing ground floor room, or incorporated into the build of an extension or new property.
A Spiral Cellar will enable you to keep hundreds of bottles in ideal conditions for as long as you want. You can buy wines by the case (still the cheapest way of purchasing) and keep them for a few years to see how they develop. You can buy a vintage of the same wine for ten years to create your own ‘vertical' collection. And you can take advantage of special one-off offers, knowing that you've got the space - and perfect conditions - to store your latest purchase. In short, a Spiral Cellar will open up the fascinating world of wine to you like never before.
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Really Interesting.
This seems like a great idea until you realize that hundreds of wine bottles will be breaking all your ribs into a pulp if you trip down the stairs.
That could be ahhmmm... expensive...
What about a smaller diameter "pipe" with a small central platform that sinks down into it like an elevator. It would be cheaper to install, stock with wine, and would probably be safer than a spiral staircase, and be accessible for almost the whole 360 degrees all the way down - the lifting system would be a small water pressure powered lift on the sides. This is just off the cuff design, but I reckon it would be way better.
Drafty: I know my luck, I would get to the bottom and the power would go out for a week....and me with nothing but wine to keep me alive. Oh, wait, sign me up for three and a power outage.
I would use it as a cellar for preserves, it would work in that capacity too.
Have a client/job in need of this or something simillar this spring.Is there a link?
We have a client installing one of these, very extravagant and equally impressive
Well, a slightly different approach would be to have the "cellar" raise out of the floor. The mechanisn for this could be a couterweighted manual system, or some sort of water hydraulic system, or indeed an electrixal system. The advantage of this is that there is no limitation for shape and size, only cost...
What about if someone break a bottle on the upper part of the spiral, like hitting it with an elbow while going down? Looks like he will have a hard time cleaning the mess...
I'm 6'6" your not getting me down that tiny stairway without hitting my head on each and every step above me, LOL. I would much rather see an elevator type platform that you ride up and down now you have 360 degree access to all bottles. I'm sure the bins pictured are a plastic containment type of shelf system so if a bottle leaks or breaks it contained in that single bin. Cool factor when you walk in the house and see this in the floor is way high.
Way cool!! Yes Please!! :)
I would prefer it as a humidor, but the possibilities are endless.
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Seems that it would make a "cool" place to hide your valuables and weapons too. Just have to counter sink it, and cover it with a rug.......
Imagine you go to take the second bottle, but you are quite drunk already :). It will be difficult job then even very danger!
yes, but thats why you keep the cheap stuff on the top shelf. You would never venture all the way down when drunk.
Awesome tornado shelter.
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