The wine has grown to become more than just a drink: nowadays, it’s hard to imagine any sort of gathering without a bottle or two present. Ever since ancient times, the wine has played a key role in celebrations but in the past 10 years, the wine culture has evolved dramatically. For today’s oenophiles, the
Read More
-
-
Industrial Chic
When the first loft conversions in Toronto started changing the condominium landscape 20 years ago, many were in awe of the raw structural elements such as polished concrete floors and posts, open beams and visible pipes and ductwork. While it all looked super cool, would these industrial elements work well in a residential setting? Over
Read More -
Luxury living is in the details
It was Hubert de Givenchy who said “The luxury is in the details”, but this simple phrase can be applied to so much more than the world of haute couture. When it comes to luxury living in the world of interiors, luxury is more than a feeling…it’s the little things we add that lend an
Read More -
Luxury metal wine racking systems
If you store your surplus bottles in a cardboard box in the basement, and that’s how you like it, so be it. Yet if you have given serious thought to storing your wines in such a way that the bottles can be displayed for aesthetic pleasure while your wine matures in optimal conditions, you may
Read More -
What to include in a small wine collection
In the wine world, there is much talk about how younger wine collectors are changing the way that wine is consumed and collected. Although thrifty Millennials are said to spend less per bottle than their parents did, there’s no doubt that this generation has produced some serious collectors – and whether or not they are
Read More -
Wine Collecting Isn’t What it Used to Be
Do you think of wine collecting as the pastime of the uber-rich? When you hear the words ‘wine collector’ perhaps the image of a stern patriarch wearing a tweed jacket with elbow patches, smoking a pipe in a dark wood-paneled wine cellar surrounded by thousands of bottles, comes to mind? That’s so last century. For
Read More -
Modern wine systems vs traditional systems
Do the words ‘wine cellar’ conjure up an image of damp, crumbling stone walls where inset bottles languished underground for hundreds of years? If so, welcome to the 21st century, where many wine cellars would be unrecognizable to our ancestors. First and foremost, wine collections aren’t always stored in a traditional, below ground cellar anymore!
Read More -
The minimalist nature of "The Cable Wine System"
Are you a devotee of the philosophy ‘less is more’? If so, you may be a minimalist – someone who is interested in achieving happiness not through accumulating an excess of things, but through life experiences. Embracing minimalism doesn’t mean you have to do away with personal possessions and start backpacking across the world (although
Read More -
Things Wine Lovers Should and Shouldn’t Do
Wine lovers are typically inclined—and even expected—to follow certain rules of etiquette when enjoying their favourite libations in various capacities and environments. There’s no doubt that the behaviours people exhibit are largely influenced by their surroundings. You could be sipping wine in a fancy restaurant, a bar, at a wine tasting event at a winery,
Read More -
How Long Should You Store Wine?
One of the greatest misconceptions perpetuated about viniculture is that all red wines are specially formulated for ageing and white wines can only be consumed immediately after purchase. The truth of the matter is that only a small proportion of mass-produced wines—including both red and white varietals—are intended for long-term storage. Most vintners anticipate that
Read More