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How to Create a Wine Room: Tips from Porch.com
Read on for some tips on location, functionality, and aesthetics that will help you create the perfect wine room in your home.
How Big is a Wine Bottle? One Size Doesn’t Fit All
As a wine cellar designer and wine cabinet manufacturer, we design our wine racks and wine cabinets to fit all sizes of wine bottles, from magnums to splits.
Are Vigilant Hardwood Wine Cellar Doors Better than Doors Made of LVL?
Your wine cellar door is the first thing you see before you enter your wine cellar. The investment of a hardwood door over others made of LVL will pay off.
8 Steps to Install a Vigilant Wine Cabinet
Vigilant was offered the opportunity to design and construct wine cabinets for a high-end restaurant in Portsmouth, NH. Working with the project architects, we identified the client’s needs based upon the available space, storage capacity, cooling application and material requirements
Wine Bottle Closure: Put a Cork in it? Maybe Not!
Is cork better than screw cap for wine storage? Learn about wine bottle storage from Vigilant – the wine storage experts.
Turn Any Space into Your Dream Wine Room
Wine storage requires space. Some are lucky enough to have plenty in their homes, but if you live in a small apartment or condominium, you may have limited options. But you’re not out of luck; there are some unsuspecting places that can be transformed into an impressive wine room. It’s not necessary to have a …
Vigilant Designs Custom Wine Cabinets for Hawaiian Resort
Vigilant constructed these custom wine cabinets for the new Bali Hai restaurant at the Hanalei Bay Resort in Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii. The former Bali Hai restaurant was destroyed by fire in 2011, and we were contacted by Jim Mehta and Ed Colson of HBR Enterprises in Hanalei, Hawaii to help in restoring the restaurant.
DON’T LOSE MONEY buying cheap retail shelving
If you are in the process of researching retail wine shelving for your new or existing wine store, there are many important factors to consider in addition to price. The cheapest option may not offer you the best value. Following are some of the key components we at Vigilant think are critical and are taken …
Anatomy of a Refrigerated Wine Cabinet
An elegant restaurant experience is created through a combination of dining room atmosphere, food presentation, interesting flavors, and wine. For clubs and restaurants with large wine collections, this means keeping wine bottles at perfect temperatures for serving and for long term storage. An increasingly popular appliance for the industry is the refrigerated wine cabinet. If …
Answering the Wine Temperature Dilemma
Having your wine stored under perfect conditions in your home or business can present many challenges. First, there is not one magic temperature that is perfect for all wines at all times. Are you storing old-growth Bordeaux’s for the long term or a Chardonnay for dinner tonight? Maybe you are doing both. For simplicity, we’ll …