Curating Commercial Wine Racks for a Steakhouse in Durango Casino & Resort, Las Vegas
Serving wine to your customers without a proper wine cellar can be difficult and unprofitable. When customers, especially dine-in ones, order wine, they expect it to be fresh, of quality, chilled, and tasty. Storing your collection in a restaurant wine cellar with a proper, dedicated climate control system can do wonders for your business, especially when it’s built with customized parts such as wooden commercial wine racks, beautiful LED lighting, glass viewing panels, and other novel functional design elements!
Inside Nicco’s Prime Cuts and Fresh Fish, a high-end steakhouse within the luxurious Durango Casino & Resort, a lavish wine room stands in the middle of the dining area, where customers can have a frilled experience picking out wines.
Let’s take a closer walk through of this incredible commercial wine cellar built by our team at CWC.com!
Reflecting Elegance and Comfort in the Most Appetizing Way
Nicco’s interior design features beautiful terrazzo tiles and custom carpeted floors with linings of wood, stone and brass, creating a uniquely contemporary style. An authentic steakhouse that also serves market-fresh seafood and premium meats, the entire restaurant was designed with a vibrant yet comfortable ambiance that engages every customers’ senses.
Curated by executive culinarians, Nicco’s menu is brimming with fresh ingredients straight from the farm, and the finest fish and meat sourced with precision.
Our goal then for this wine room was to create a space that was equally astounding as the restaurant’s grandeur; a commercial wine cellar that’s a treat for the senses and helps the business serve wine as fresh as its food.
Welcoming Guests with Gold-Plated Glass Doors
While an all-glass wine cellar is common and beneficial for commercial wine stores and restaurants, Nicco’s wine room has solid walls on three sides and a towering glass door on the fourth. Customers can have a glimpse of the wine cellar when they pass in front of the door, and they can go inside to see the wines up close as we made sure the room was spacious enough for people to comfortably walk about
We maintained the touches of gold reflected throughout the restaurant. Besides lining the external walls with gold plating, we also custom-made their glass door with gold-plated framing and gold-plated metal handles.
Every time you use the door, you definitely feel that good seal, not just because of the weight of the door, but also because of its perfect fit.
While frameless glass wine cellar doors are the ultimate modern vibe, adding framing to glass doors, especially large ones like this, further secures the dual-paned tempered glass.
Custom Commercial Wine Racks as Main Display Curators
As they enter the cellar, the customers are immediately greeted by rows and rows of beautifully crafted wooden wine racks, left and right. White oak was the primary choice of wood for this cellar, but we decided to stain it with a rustic color to give a traditionally classy feel. The racks are secured from floor to ceiling and have a total height of 15feet. In order to reach the top rows, our team installed and attached two custom rolling ladders on both racks.
To store about 4,000 wine bottles in a sophisticated way, we curated different styles of racking compartments. The bottom sections are comprised of spacious crate/wine box storage that are also used to store bottles vertically, while the top sections are all single-deep standard 750 racks. At breast height, separating the upper and lower racks are drawers and a reveal row that displays bottles in a 45-degree angle. This row is well-lighted with LED lights hidden behind a custom light valance.
Two Wine Rooms in One?
Now here’s the surprise. Nicco’s wine cellar is actually two wine cellars in one. We call them Zone 1 and Zone 2. As we’ve learned throughout the years (and as wine collectors ourselves), different wines have different optimum conditions to stay fresh. For example, reds can be preserved in a slightly higher temperature than whites.
So for Nicco’s, we created two zones, separated by a tall, frameless glass wine room door. In the first zone (the zone immediately after the main wine cellar door), it’s 55 degrees. In the second zone, where you can find the whites like champagnes, sauvignon blancs, etc., it’s between 40-45 degrees.
Like the 1st zone, the 2nd zone also has ceiling-height custom wine racks. In there, bottles are displayed in more styles of racking compartments like metal horizontal storage racks.
By having these two zones, Nicco’s ensures every type of wine is preserved perfectly and served in their best quality.
How to Upscale Your Restaurant With a Sophisticated Wine Cellar
Are you thinking of putting up a climate-controlled wine cellar for your business? Remember that commercial wine cellars slightly differ from residential wine cellars. The biggest difference is, commercial wine displays are professionally curated to positively influence customers’ buying decisions!
At CWC.com, we help ensure your customers are enticed to purchase your wines. We work hard to take your inventory from your wine menu onto your customers’ wine glasses!
With years of experience designing and building wine cellars — from commercial wine racks to doors, lighting, flooring, refrigeration, and more — our team has the expertise, passion, and skills to create an enchanting wine cellar that will define your business.
To start, call us at +1 (949) 771 – 2712 and we’ll be happy to jump in a discovery call with you!
