Journal

Notes on wine, design & technology

Perspectives from the team building the connected cellar — on what makes a cellar intelligent, and the engineering behind a collection that looks after itself.

Smart Cellars
What makes a wine cellar truly smart
An honest tour of apps, digital twins, tags and cabinets — and what genuine virtual-physical integration looks like.
Read → Lighting
Seeing your collection without exposing it
Distributed LEDs, spectrum control and per-bottle UV budgets that let you see every bottle without aging it.
Read → Engineering
Engineered to disappear
Magnetic latching cradles, dense COB lighting and a purpose-built sensor bus — the behind-the-wall craft that makes it feel effortless.
Read → Cellar Design
How to design a custom modern wine cellar
Technology that doesn't date, retrofits done right, climate, light, capacity and cost — a guide to a cellar that's modern today and timeless for decades.
Read → Entertaining
Designing a wine cellar for entertaining
Ambiance, the theatre of choosing a bottle, and effortless guidance for guests — a cellar built to become the centre of how you host.
Read → Film
How the Uva smart cellar works
A short film on the invisible hardware, bottles that light on demand, and the Smart Sommelier app.
Watch → Film
Our story
How a family set out to make the hardware disappear, let the bottles glow, and bring more meaning to every collection.
Watch → Winery Diary
Ixsir, and a lunch that went long
A visit to Ixsir in the hills above Batroun, Lebanon — the drive, the estate, a long lunch on the terrace, and the wines worth slowing down for.
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