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Custom Wine Cellar Santa Barbara California: Sea Smoke
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We’re really proud to take you on a, a little short tour of a job we just completed up in, um, Lompoc, California near Santa Barbara.
Are you ready to embark on an intoxicating journey through the realm of California’s finest wines?
We’re not just talking about tasting the vino – we’re talking about building a custom sanctuary to cradle, display, and ultimately savor each drop of your liquid gold!
Welcome to an insider’s peek into our latest project, where we partnered with one of the most coveted Californian vineyards, Sea Smoke, to create an awe-inspiring wine cellar nestled in the picturesque Santa Rita Hills in Santa Barbara, California.
Ever heard the phrase, “location, location, location”? Sea Smoke Vineyard took it to heart, choosing a unique parcel of land hugging the Santa Ynez River for its innate microclimate and geography.
This spectacular site, drenched in the eerie beauty of sea smoke rolling up from the Pacific to cool the vines, offers an extended ripening period producing intense, flavorful grapes in modest quantities – the perfect recipe for world-class Pinot Noirs.
But here’s where our story gets truly delicious: we had the privilege to partner with Sea Smoke Cellars to create a custom wine cellar in Lompoc, California that goes beyond just housing their precious nectar.
Together, we sought to reflect the passion, expertise, and meticulous artistry that goes into every bottle of their renowned Pinot Noirs. Intrigued? Let’s pop the cork on this captivating project, shall we?
The Wine Cellar Client
In building Custom Wine Cellars we do not often get the opportunity to actually create one for a Californian Vineyard.
It was therefore with a lot of excitement that went to visit the owners of the Sea Smoke Vineyard located in the Santa Rita Hills in Santa Barbara California.
Sea Smoke Cellars’ vineyards in Santa Barbara County are perched on a parcel of land hugging the northern banks of the Santa Ynez River.
The site was chosen for its unique microclimate and geography which helps in stunting the fruits’ maturation.
The fog (sea smoke) that floods its way from the Pacific up to the river valley cools the vines, resulting in a longer ripening period that produces a minimal harvest of grapes with remarkably intense flavors.
The lands’ shallow clay soil, southern exposure, and steep slopes have long been coveted by vintners, and it took the passionate efforts of the company’s owner to convert this unique stretch of land into the world-class Pinot Noir-producing vineyard as we know it today. The actual Sea Smoke Cellars winery is located in Lompoc, CA about 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
Sea Smoke Cellars produces some of the most sought-after Pinot Noirs, which they wanted to display at their custom wine cellar in Lompoc, California.
Coastal Custom Wine Cellars were really excited that they chose to partner with us to create a wine cellar that not only stored and displayed the wine, but also reflected the passion and mastery they put in producing their renowned Pinots.
Custom Wine Cellars California Sea Smoke Pinot Noir
In addition to Sea Smoke Vinyard’s own products, they also have a large collection of wine that varies from standard-sized bottles, to the 3L and 6L types, in their wine storage in Lompoc, CA.
They also wanted to store some of it in their original wooden crates and cardboard boxes. The size of the room, which measured 243″ wide, 87″ deep, and 104″ high, allowed us to create various wine racks that can store all types of bottles and crates that our wine cellar Santa Barbara clients have in their collection.
Before starting a project, Coastal Custom Wine Cellars provides clients with detailed CAD drawings
Sea Smoke Commercial Wine Cellar Display Project California
It is very common for collectors to underestimate the potential size of their collection.
For the custom wine cellar in Santa Barbara, California, we created a design that can accommodate a wide variety of bottle sizes and types.
The collection includes numerous large-format bottles. This bottle type poses the most common problems when the allocation for their sizes is not incorporated into the design early on.
Storing large wine bottles the standard way would use up a lot of space because the length of the bottles would require deeper wine racks.
Anything more than 13 inches would be far too deep for their 750mL wine bottles.
What is more, with standard storage configurations, the client wouldn’t be able to prominently display their own labels.
Because of this, our Coastal Custom Wine Cellar designers were purposeful in designing unique custom wine storage racks that would hold various sizes of wine bottles for our Santa Barbara wine cellar client.
A Flexible Design That Accommodates A Wide Range of Wine Bottle Sizes and Types
horizontal wine rack made from knotty alder shows off custom wine labels
waterfall display wooden wine rack
knotty alder tasting table perfect for customer tastings
The custom, 3-bottle deep horizontal lattice displays, and the horizontal waterfall displays allow the wine bottles, and the labels, to be more visible. Both storage configurations also allow for easy access to the bottles. Notice that with the horizontal waterfall displays, you can store the bottles in varying orientations.
Several different wooden wine racks were combined to create a beautiful and practical wine cellar Santa Barbara
Diamond and Rectangular Storage Bins Significantly Increase Storage Capacity
A mixture of diamond and rectangular storage bins was built to significantly increase storage capacity for future use. Add to it the single-bottle wine racks on top and this custom wine cellar in Santa Barbara can store as many as 1480 wine bottles.
Diamond Bin Wine Racking Provides an Excellent Case Management Solution for Sea Smoke Cellars
Wooden crates and cardboard boxes are conveniently shelved in the rectangle storage bins.
In this image, you can see one of two half-height diamond wine storage bins just below the windows.
They can serve as table tops for wine glasses and other wine cellar accessories. Cabinets were also built into the design that could serve a multitude of functions including wine glass storage.
The table top in the center of the room can also be used for centerpieces.
Perfect for staining applications, the Knotty Alder has become so popular because of its abundance and affordability, especially when compared to other hardwoods.
It is currently the leading hardwood of the Pacific Northwest.
To further enhance the rustic appearance of the flooring and window trims throughout the tasting room and the cellar, we chose the Knotty Alder for wood material for the wine racks and cabinets.
Knotty Alder has numerous knots and distressed areas in its otherwise nice grain patterns that give the wood a remarkably natural look.
A wheat stain and clear lacquer finish on the knotty alder wine racks produced a beautiful, rustic appearance for the entire custom wine cellar.
The Natural Charm of Knotty Alder – Custom Wine Cellars Design
The detailed CAD drawings allow our clients to see and approve their
custom wine cellar design before the project begins.
Below is a look at before-and-after pictures so you can get a feel for the transformation. The knotty alder wine racks can also store the clients’ Burgundy collection in their original wooden crates. The winery’s products now presented in a professional manner.
Before the wine cellar remodel, wine was stored in boxes and crates
Our Santa Barbara wine cellar client was very happy with the finished product
Our latest custom wine cellar creation is a nod to our staff’s creativity and excellent craftsmanship. Every aspect of this Santa Barbara, CA wine cellar, from the display and storage configurations to the excellent choice of wood, is a product of Coastal’s years of experience in the custom wine cellar industry and dedication to its craft.
Coastal Custom Wine Cellars is extremely proud to have worked with Sea Smoke Cellars on this custom wine cellar project in Lompoc, California.
Video Tour of the Custom Wine Cellar Santa Barbara California Vineyard Sea Smoke
Sea Smoke’s estate vineyards are perched on south-facing hillsides above the Santa Ynez River. The vineyard is located at the western end of Santa Barbara’s Santa Rita Hills. The actual winery is located in Lompoc, CA. about 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles, CA. Coastal Custom Wine Cellars our proud to have successfully designed and installed these distinctive custom wine racks at the prestigious vineyard.
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Vinyard Custom Wine Cellars Santa Barbara California: Sea Smoke Video Transcription
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Hi folks. We’re really proud to take you on a, a little short tour of a job we just completed up in, um, Lompoc, California near Santa Barbara, uh, for a, a winery and a and a vineyard Seas Smoke Estate Vineyards. They’re perched on the south-facing hillsides above the Santa Inez River. This vineyard is, is gorgeous. It’s located at the western end of Santa Barbara’s, Santa Rita Hills. The actual winery itself is located in Lompoc, California. I’ll show you a really nice picture that we took while we visited or when we first visited. This is pretty much what the room looked like when I arrived. Um, it was bare. A lot of wines were stored in here, uh, boxes, cardboard cases, wooden cases, that sort of thing, maps and such. While I visited with the, uh, general manager and the, and the winemaker here we’re, were standing just outside the wine room.
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Wine Cellar Design Details
Uh, got a lot of details on what he wanted to include, uh, and how he wanted the wines displayed. So after taking some measurements, uh, a few days later, we created this beautiful three-dimensional design package. This is an overhead view of the wine room, which was 243 inches wide, 87 inches deep, and had a ceiling height, uh, just shy of nine feet in overall height. A lot of horizontal displays where the bottles are laying on their sides here with full visibility. We’ve got, uh, some single bottle storage at the top wood case storage racks here on the far left, some cabinetry, and some more. This is a quarter-round display. You’ll see in the 3D drawings and some subsequent pictures how this all fell together. The total bottle capacity for this wine room is 674 bottles. These are the two side walls. These are diamond bin storage racks, which are actually underneath the windows, hence the half height or the tabletop height.
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Double Deep and Waterfall Displays
You see how this area here in the middle is double deep, uh, or what’s called double deep giving some depth and some character to the room. The horizontal waterfall displayed here on the right actually a waterfall or stairstep. The bottles these here are, are, uh, more horizontal where they just lay side by side. Get stored up to three bottles deep on this type, these little icons are here for wooden cases or reflecting wooden cases. So I’ll take you to some pictures now of the finished product. Really nice, I think. Hope you’ll like ’em. This was just completed here about two weeks ago, in early April 2011. You can see how the horizontal displays and the waterfall displays appear in the wine room. This is a Knotty alder floor, tongue groove paneling floor. The wood itself for the wine racks is Knotty Alder. We put a wheat stain and a clear lacquer finish over it. It’s really quite rustic and quite beautiful looking. You can see here what I meant by the half heights diamonds underneath the windows. These guys make a world-class pinot. You should check it out. Um, they do have list memberships. It’s, it’s very private, very small, but it’s an exquisite wine and it’s just a really nice experience for coastal. We’re very, very happy Th
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This is the view from just outside the wine room looking in.
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Cheers.
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