Wine Cellar Tables

For those wine connoisseurs who want to designate a specific area for sampling, adding a wine service area is a good option. Here a table or two with chairs can allow you to offer your guests a special wine tasting in your cellar. Some of the choices for wine cellar tables range from elegant pieces of furniture that you would put into a dining room to small hand-made pieces of art. Some even incorporate function into their beauty.

Wood

If your wine cellar is large, you may be able to accommodate an elegant dinning table with four to six chairs. Or perhaps you want something a bit cozier. Then, a couple of arm chairs and a side table or two would be perfect, allowing some counter space along your walls to accommodate open bottles and a tray of hand nibbles. Again, you can choose furniture that you would normally use in your home. However, you should keep in mind that your wine cellar will be cool and and humid to a degree. Therefore leather instead of cloth upholstery would be a better choice. In addition, furniture chosen for those conditions should be made of choice hardwoods and will need to be carefully maintained.

More modest, but equally impressive, are wood rack tables and bar tables. These tables have built in wine racks on the bottom of the piece with a solid wood table top. Some even have a space for hanging wine glasses underneath the table top just before the racking begins. These are often solid wood construction made with redwood, oak, or an exotic wood. Higher quality tables have moldings that are routed into the solid redwood panels rather than veneered onto plywoods.

Another choice is vintage wine barrel tabletops. The cooperage or the outside sections of the barrel are used because of their distinctive markings, which occur because of what particular wine was stored inside and how it was cellared. Counter tops can be made with barrel woods and bear cooperage stamps every three feet, but they can be used for long tables.  The infusion woods or the areas inside the barrel are especially beautiful because of their characteristic patina. Deep burgundy colors stain the woods and offer a rich essence. There rounded nature makes them the perfect choice for tabletops. They may be shipped to the wine cellar owner in pieces to be assembled very easily to be installed on top of racking. They can also be incorporated into a simple table with legs.