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This California home has a library but it’s not for dusty old books
By Emily Power
There are markets within markets in real estate, even within the highest end.
And at a prestige level, what is one better than a wine cellar?
This California home comes with a library, but not for books.Credit: Compass
A wine library.
Welcome to 850 Sanitarium Road in Deer Park, California.
The Napa County estate, asking $US19.9 million ($A29.5 million), has a room dedicated to the delicate, Celsius-precise storage of 2000 bottles, with separate temperature-controlled zones for crisp whites and heroic reds.
The cellar is no dark, dank basement afterthought, as you’d expect in a home plonked in a world-famous wine region. Instead, it is bathed in light through full-height windows and doors, edged in steel.
The wine library is bathed in light.Credit: Compass
The same minimalist, industrial theme flows through the three-bedroom house and manicured gardens.
Banks of glass - including a sensational walkway - capture panoramas of the handsome surrounding forest, from the home’s position between the valley floor and the Mayacamas Mountains.
Mother Nature is a beautiful backdrop but the landscapers lent their own special touches to the outdoor spaces, including a granite water feature with “million-year-old earth pearls″.
The kitchen features a sculptural island bench, flowing like a luxuriously chewy cab sav into a Riedel glass.
Mother Nature is quite the backdrop.Credit: Compass
Generous use of timber and concrete throughout, as well as a light hand with decor and flourishes, seems to blur the property into the mountainside.
The Napa Valley is a celebrity haunt, with a number of A-listers owning wineries.
Famous side-hustle vignerons include legendary movie director Francis Ford Coppola (Inglenook Winery) and singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs (Scaggs Winery).
The home seems to blur into the mountainside.Credit: Compass
As a holiday destination, it is hard to top - just ask the Kardashians, who frequent Napa’s Del Dotto Vineyards in St Helena, just south of Deer Park, and have given the family-owned, small-production business a huge PR boost.
Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty is looking after the sale campaign for 850 Sanitarium Road.