Seven Layers. Only One Is Visible

You watched the dream come apart and go back together. Those layers are the difference between a cellar that lasts thirty years and one that gets rebuilt in five.

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How a custom wine cellar is built

Every Prestige cellar is engineered before it is built. Construction begins with the envelope — a continuous vapor barrier and closed-cell spray foam insulation that seal the room against the humidity and temperature swings that quietly ruin a collection. Only once the space is airtight do we integrate climate control, with a cooling system sized to the room’s exact load rather than pulled from a catalogue, so temperature and humidity hold steady year-round. Inside, custom white oak millwork is cut to the drawing and finished by hand, and the racking is engineered for the weight it carries and the bottles it presents. The result performs like laboratory equipment and reads like furniture.

Wine cellar construction is a building-science project before it is a design project. Every custom wine cellar we build follows the same seven-layer process: framing and rough-in, closed-cell spray foam insulation, interior finish, a properly sized wine cellar cooling system holding 55°F and 60 percent humidity, custom wine racking, an insulated glass wine cellar door, and low-heat LED lighting. Prestige Wine Cellars designs and builds custom wine cellars across Texas — Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the Hill Country.