Forget wine cellars and closets—what the true vino connoisseur needs now is the Walk-in Wine Vault by GE Monogram. It not only houses approximately 1,000 bottles of wine at the perfect storage temperature and humidity, but it also retains an inventory, announces peak drinking time so as to not waste those vintage years, and reminds you when to buy more.
About the only thing it doesn’t do, in fact, is take away the car keys when you’ve drunk too much.
The Vault fits into an 8.95 by 11.95 foot space. It’s 7 feet, 10 inches tall, so people are retro installing them in 9-by-12-foot bedrooms. You don’t even need a back-up generator, according to Michael Davis at Capital Distributing, where the Vaults are available. Instead, it uses 110-volt electricity. The price is $38,000 installed.
“The Vault has a touch screen that scans each bottle,” Davis says. “It’s almost like having a grocery scanner in your home.”
Now if it could only turn Gallo into 2003 Chateau Lafite Rothschild.
