Cellaring Wine: A Complete Guide to Selecting, Building, and Managing Your Wine Collection

Now Jeff Cox, author of From Vines to Wines (89,000 copies in print) and a connoisseur well respected in wine circles, shows you how easy it is to have a wine cellar of your own.

But Cellaring Wine is not a home-building project book. In some cases, the would-be wine collector doesn?t have to do much building at all. Rather, Cellaring Wine teaches anyone who loves wine how to create a working system of selecting wines that will age well, know how to lay them down properly, and recognize when they have matured to their full glory and are ready to be savored.

Cox pinpoints the optimum conditions of temperature, light, and humidity for a wine cellar. He walks you through possible locations for your wine cellar ? whether in the basement, an old root cellar, the back of your garage, or even a closet or room in your house ? and what each location requires. He explains when you?ll need a climate-control device (and how much they cost). And he discusses the pros and cons of buying a freestanding unit that is much like a refrigerator.

Then Cox tackles the question that most troubles wine lovers: Which wines will improve with age, and which won?t? This chapter alone is worth the price of the book, since nothing is more disappointing to a wine lover than waiting years to open a bottle of wine only to discover that it was at its peak when it was laid down.

Cox shows you how to keep accurate records so you know at a glance ? without having to hunt through the wine racks ? what you have, where it?s located, and how much to buy so the cellar doesn?t become depleted. And he gives you a crash course in appreciating the fragrance and flavor of a fine wine.Perhaps best of all, Cox gets readers excited about the possibilities of having their own wine cellar. After all, a cellar is not just a storage room, it?s a university where good young wines become great.

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All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Cellaring and much more...., 2007-10-07
The title of this book is a little misleading, the book does cover selecting, building, and managing wine. However, this information only acocunts for about 1/4 of the book. The rest of the book talks about wine in general. The cellaring chapters were very detailed and answered all of my questions. The other 3/4 of the book was interesting and covered your basic intro to wine information. If you want to know more about wine, or are looking for a complete guide on different ways to cellar wine, then this book is for you.


0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Exactly what it says..., 2006-08-22
Jeff Cox has written a wonderful guide for cellaring wine which is nearly complete in all its details. More importantly, he has managed to write it in a way that is highly readable.


3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

More [and less] than the title implies, 2005-10-27
This is a beautiful and well written book, unfortunately the title is a bit misleading. It not only discusses selecting, building and managing your wine collection, but also spends a great deal of time [most of the book actually] on such things as the aroma wheel, picking your wines, etc. If you're already an enthusiast looking for a 'how to' book, you might want to look elsewhere.


5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

For the serious wine collector, 2003-11-14
Cellaring Wine: Managing Your Wine Collection...To Perfection by Jeff Cox (Contributing Editor to"The Wine News" and Senior editor of"Global Vintage Quarterly") is a practical and authoritative "how-to" guidebook for the serious wine collector who cares about storing premium wines under the best possible conditions. Individual chapters deftly address the basics of how wine ages; selecting vintages of wine to store; how to construct and equip a wine cellar; record keeping; evaluating fine wines, and more. A thoughtful, easy-to-follow, and explicit guide Cellaring Wine is confidently recommended for dedicated and aspiring wine connoisseurs.


3 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

cellaring wine is indeed good, 2003-10-08
OK, it's refreshing to take the seriousness out of wine and show everybody that it's for their occasion. Putting all seriousness aside, though, wine is serious. If your willing to go out and buy and then read a book about it, then it's serious. Now this doesn't mean you should be afraid, it simply means wine is something worth experiencing and your more than eager. go for it, read this book, and more importantly drink the wine. If you, like me, are already past GO then don't slow down for this book. Read this book without expectations of rising to connoisership and read it before your glass gets half full.

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