Wine Truth: by Michael Dominic

My wife Ting and I just bought our first home. A huge prewar apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens. I’m sorry to leave behind the movement of Manhattan, but the trade-off in space makes it a no contest. 280 square feet to 1400 square feet.

When I first went to see it, I saw that in the kitchen was a 50 bottle built-in Vinotemp wine cellar. I swear, I got a little choked-up. Vinotemp is not a brand that I would trust long term with my finest bottles, but I figure I’ll keep it at drinking temperature, and keep more bottles at the ready. Of course I will still have my 3-temp EuroCave.

We should be moved in by the end of May or the start of June. If you want to see more pictures of the apartment go here. That’s not our furniture and stuff in the place, it’s the sellers.

One of the more difficult tasks for me when I decided to start buying and cellaring more expensive wine was figuring out where and how to keep it. I live in a bantam one bedroom apartment with a four flight walk-up in a tenement building in the East Village of New York City. Space is always an issue.

Keeping a few bottles of table wine that would be drunk in the near future was not a problem. I would keep them in the coolest spot in my living room on their side. As I read more about wine, I started salivating over better and better bottles. I decided if I was going to buy good wine, the floor would not do.