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Wined, Sealed, Delivered Renovating a wine cellar gives Dublin home new life
The interior of the Daniel’s new vault.
Vincent Daniel’s love of wine began when he visited Napa Valley in the late ’90s. Over the years he has amassed quite the collection, eventually prompting him and his wife Jennifer to consider the best way to store that wine. “I started buying cabernets that are really made to be cellared for a number of years before drinking them,” Vincent says. “If I was 40 • February/March 2022
going to buy fairly expensive bottles that I’m not going to drink for the next five to 10 to 15 years, I wanted to make sure the conditions they were stored at were perfect.” For Vincent, it was clear that his home wasn’t offering the right conditions. The basement had a wine closet but it lacked space and a cooling system. “I did open some bottles and it didn’t taste the same as it did in Napa,” Wincent says. “I wondered if it had to do with the fact it was stored in less-thanideal conditions and it accelerated aging of the wine so it was not as good as it could have been.”
Jennifer was also unhappy with the basement and how the space was being utilized. “One thing I didn’t like was this choppy little room we walked through to get to the back,” she says. “A lot of the space wasn’t being used.” The Daniels brought in Dave Fox Remodeling to rethink and renovate the space. Design Consultant Stephen Dempsey came up with an idea to remove a wall and create a more open area. The Daniels immediately loved the idea. “All of a sudden that room you couldn’t do anything with became usable space,” Jennifer says. “I got a better designed basewww.dublinlifemagazine.com