Cellar Notes

Collectible spirits and mature wines. Building a cellar that ages with you across decades.

Home wine storage: bottles laid on their sides in stacked wooden racks.

How to Start a Wine Cellar From Scratch: A Twelve-Bottle, Thirty-Year Plan

How to start a wine cellar: twelve bottles chosen by drinking window, three wines with ageing set by regulators, a storage-cost worked example, basics.

NorwegianSpark Editorial8 min

Oak barrels resting along a curved, vaulted wine cave at the Jarvis Winery.

Cellar Notes

En primeur explained: how Bordeaux wine futures actually work — and the risks

En primeur explained: how buying Bordeaux wine futures works, from barrel tasting to delivery about two years on, the risks, and when it is worth it.

NorwegianSpark Editorial13 min