About Us – Home and Commercial Wine Cellar Specialists

A Residential and Commercial Wine Cellar Builder You Can Trust

Robert and the Wine Cellar Specialists team can make your dream wine cellar a reality!

Collecting fine wines is a hobby that presents certain challenges. Perhaps you’re a Tampa homeowner that wants to build a modern custom wine cabinet that will maintain proper temperature and humidity in the Florida heat. Perhaps you own a commercial property in Chicago and need a large ducted wine cellar for your growing restaurant or hotel. Or perhaps you’re right here in Texas and just want to find a builder you can trust to create the custom wine cellar you’ve wanted for years. In any case, finding a designer and builder with the skills, experience, and passion to build these incredible structures can be very challenging.

Wine Cellar Specialists understands both wine enthusiast and the homeowner; the sommelier and the restaurant manager.  With nationwide operations, our design experts have a vast collective experience in helping the client walk through the process with ease.  Whether it’s a small stairwell space or an expansive restaurant wine room, we make sure the client gets our best, every single time. Call us today at (972) 454-0480 and let’s talk about what we can do for you!

About Robert Stockberger

Robert has many passions involving wine and is familiar with the entire process from grape to glass.

Robert brings a blend of experience to the wine cellar design and installation business. Robert has over twenty years in commercial construction, responsible for hundreds of millions of square feet of mixed-use space in Los Angeles and Orange County, and 10 years in the art of winemaking, including the crush and blend of wines that are now commercially available with a 93 rating in Wine Enthusiast. 

In addition to this, Robert is an accomplished cabinet and furniture maker with an eye for design, style, and quality craftsmanship. With his multi-faceted background, Robert opened a new chapter as the CEO of Wine Cellar Specialists which is the marriage of his passions and natural talents, guiding the client in their dream of cellaring their own wine collection.

Wine Cellar Design Discovery Process

We spend a lot of time discussing your needs and expectations, helping us to figure out how to design the project to your specifications:

  • How many bottles of wine do you plan to have?
  • What size of bottles do you collect?
  • Do you plan to host in the space?
  • Do you collect other beverages?
  • What are your aesthetic tastes?

Very often builders who construct wine cellars have cookie-cutter patterns that they try to fit their client’s homes or commercial properties into because they don’t know enough about this very specialized niche of construction. We, however, only build wine cellar projects. So if you can imagine it, or you’ve seen it in a magazine, or online, chances are we can do it.

Ask Robert: What do you love about your job?

Robert Stockberger and his wife Kim, are wine enthusiasts and experts.

“I pride myself on giving the client what they imagine for themselves.  With so many years in client relations and project management, that part is easy for me. What I love is meeting new people with an interest in wine and seeing their project through from vision to completion.” 

Nicely Avoiding the Pitfalls

This is where professional, friendly, and specialized planning comes into play. We’ve seen scores of wine cellars. We know where the pitfalls can come. We will help guide you through the challenges. We will help you navigate the choices that need to be made with minimal pain!

Ask Robert: What are your favorite styles?

“There is a place for every design style.  The key is knowing what you like and what will fit perfectly into your current design aesthetic, so it looks like an extension of your home and your personality.”

Keeping Your Project on Budget

One of the misconceptions out there is that you pay more for custom work. But you need to consider an important fact: Won’t you save money in the long run by staying on budget? How many times have you started a home construction project, or heard of colleagues start a professional commercial project, only to have it spiral out of control because of unforeseen expenses? This is what happens when your builder doesn’t know what they are doing. Certainly, there are always things you can’t plan for whenever you enter a construction job, which is why planning is so vital. You have to plan for what you can’t plan for. This is why choosing a builder that has built wine cellar projects, of various types, all across the country is so important.

Designing on Budget

The other important factor when it comes to your budget is to design your project according to your budget. This is SO IMPORTANT. Where do you want your money to go in your project? Do you want it spent on racking? In the walls? In the flooring? In the cooling system? It all depends on YOUR priorities. A commercial wine cellar in the back of a Chicago restaurant is going to have very different budgeting priorities than a wine tasting room in a Clearwater, Florida residence. Very often we can help you save money on your project, making it cheaper than you think it will be. Hiring an expert designer is a very smart financial choice when it comes to wine cellars.

Protecting Your Investment

Home Wine Cellar in Tampa, FloridaWe understand the importance of preserving your investment. First, you’re investing in a wine cellar. Second, you’re investing in wine stock. Both investments can be expensive and personally valuable to you. And both appreciate in value when preserved. So we recognize the importance of respecting the investment you’re making and doing everything in our power to help maximize your return on this investment, from both a financial perspective as well as a personal one. Protecting the wine investment can be of particular importance to our commercial restaurant and wine store owners. Talk with us today about what your financial goals are for your business and how we can help you increase your profitability through a custom wine cellar.

Choosing Your Cooling Unit

The biggest technical decision for any wine cellar construction project is what type and brand of wine cellar refrigeration unit should be chosen. You don’t want to invest thousands of dollars only to find out a few months from now that the wine cellar isn’t maintaining the right conditions— Or worse yet, find out that the wine cooling unit is actually causing damage to your property due to a leak. This would be a disaster, and it’s not without precedence. We see it all the time.

Trusted Wine Cellar Builders Know How to Help You Make the Right Choices

Wine cellar construction also involves understanding the space that we’re building in and choosing the right materials and techniques for construction. You can’t just use any old type of flooring in a wine cellar. You also can’t just install any type of lighting in a wine room? And don’t think that any door is going to be okay to install into the room. These kinds of choices really have to be thought through and understood by an expert.

Don’t Forget to Consider Insulation

Insulation is also a very big deal. We insulate your space to make sure that the refrigeration unit that we’ve installed doesn’t get overworked. Much could be written and said about this important topic. We highly recommend you see our page on insulation and discuss this topic with one of our specialists so that you can understand how your future wine cellar is going to be protected from climate fluctuations—the enemy to wine.

A Wide Assortment of Home and Commercial Wine Cellar Features and Options – from Chicago to Tampa

Custom Wine Cellar Dispensation in ChicagoWhen you work with the best wine cellar builder in the country, you work with a company that offers every and any option related to wine storage.

And much more. We are adding new items all the time. Everything we have access to may or may not always be shown on our website, so you’ll want to ask if you’re interested in something you have seen somewhere else—chances are we can get it for you.

Working with a Specialist from A to Z

At the award-winning Wine Cellar Specialists, we assign you your own expert to work on your project from the beginning to the end. We want you to be able to pick up the phone and speak with a real person about your project. On the other hand, if you like communicating by email, we’re happy to do so as well—whatever fits your preferences. Let your design specialist know how you want to connect. When you first meet with a Wine Cellar Specialist, we provide a free consultation and 3D Design, an important step in helping you visualize your project.

Where We’re Located

Tampa Florida Custom Wine Cellar Design SpecialistsRight now we have design offices in Dallas and San Antonio, servicing the entire state of Texas. We also have an installation office in Chicago, Illinois, allowing us to conveniently serve both homes and commercial business owners in need of cellar construction in that wine-loving metro area. And we’re now excited to announce that Tampa, Florida office is open as well, allowing us to serve the marvelous State of Florida.

We Build Nationwide

Regardless of your location, we build wine cellars all over the United States. We’re able to build in your hometown if you give us a call. As we said, we work for you. If you’re not near one of our design offices, we’ll be happy to come to you. Call us or contact us here and we’ll start the process of helping you find out what countless families and businesses throughout the country now understand—that when you’re building something as personal and important as a wine cellar, you’ll want to choose Wine Cellar Specialists.

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