Savante Wine Cellars in Denver Business Journal - September 2009
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Darryl Hogeback of Savanté Wine Cellars turned the lessons he learned in high school shop class into a woodworking business, and now a company that makes wine cellars.
Savante Wine Cellars wins IDEA 2009 Best In Show and Green Awards
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Article Highlights:
"Every client has specfic storage needs, which we build around,... Clients may envision having 5 percent magnums, 20 percent cases and the balance in regular bottles. Knowing thier thinking helps us create a space that is both functional and appealing."
Working with a home builder, architect, interior designer, property owner-or in concert with all of them-Darryl is typically invited in at the begining of the home or restaurant building process.
Luxe interiors and design magazine features Savanté
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Darryl Hogeback has been crafting custom cabinetry and furniture pieces in Littleton Colorado for decades. Pictured at left is a Mayan end table, one of his earlyer works
Luxe: How do you approach design?
Darryl H: With artistic integrity.
L: Inspirational design icons?
D:Sam Maloof, George Nakashima, & Thomas Moser.
L: Right now I'm working on...
D: A recycling program that salvages retired wine barrels into racking.
L: Favorite wine?
D: Cabs and merlots.
Aspen Magazine features Savanté
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This room utilizes the Sommelier Collection. Since the
room was tucked away in the Bellotti home, Savanté incorporated horizontal bottle racking which sets against
the wall. This allowed for maximum bottle storage in this beautiful white oak room.
An Under-stair closet was transformed into a temperature controlled wine cellar, by Savante Wine Cellars in Denver, enclosed by a glass door.
Luxe Magazine features Savanté
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This instalation utilizes the Illuminum Collection, which displays using acrylic. In this way the wine room displays the bottles so the wine, not the cabinetry, is the focal point.
Mountain Living Magazine features Savanté - February 2009
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RECLAIMED WINE BARREL STAVES were used to create custom wine stroage racks by award-winning furniture-maker Darryl Hogeback, owner of SAVANTÉ Wine Cellars. Made of durable decay-resistant white oak, the racks are steamed and bent, then colored with a natural fuming process. Mortise-and-tennon joinery and horizontal orientation uses 25%less material than other wood systems.
This room utilizes the Stave Oak Collection which are uniquely demonstrated in the steam bent corners. Since the room was ment to showcase green design, the Stave Oak Collection became a focal point of the project.
Mountain Living Magazine features Savanté - January 2009
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Mountain living featured the Stave Oak Collection as their "Natural Dream Home" in the January edition.
"Each year, approximately 200,000 wine barrels are retired in California," says Darryl Hogeback. "And while some are repurposed as planters or tables, the majority are thrown out. These barrels are made from white oak, so we decided to try re-engineering the staves into wine cellar racks, and our new Stave Oak collection was born. It's such a wonderful way to recyce materials and its a great conversation piece. We can work with barrels from many different wineries; in the Natrual Dream Home, we used barrels from Hill Family Estate's 2004 vintage. Even the drawer fronts are made from the heads of the barrels; you can still see the stamps in the wood. So now the homeowner can buy a bottle of Hill Family Estate wine and cellar it on the very same wood that it was first aged in."
Green Design. SAVANTÉ Wine Cellars' systems are made using mortise-and tennon construction for furniture-grade strength without the use of nails, staples or screws, and the racks are oriented horizontally, "so you don't have any vertical uprights that obstruct your view of the bottles," says Hogeback. "This creates more airflow around the bottles for a more consistent temperature, and it uses fewer materials." In fact, SAVANTÉ uses 25 percent less material by volume than other wood systems. The bottles rest on round dowel rods, which also maximized airflow, protects labels and keeps material to a minimum. Hogeback uses white oak instead of redwood for SAVANTÉ racking systems "because white oak has the same decay-resistance as redwood, but it's stronger," he says. "This gives us the opportunity to use wine barrels, which are made of white oak, and to do steam bending and fuming of the wood.
"Steam bending - the process of steaming the wood, then bending it to fit a form - lets us bend the pieces of wood into a true curve." he says. In the Natural Dream Home, two corners of the wine room feature these elegantly curved racks. "The fuming process - allowing ammonia fumes to react with the wood's natural tannins, resulting in a darker color - lets us color the wood without using any lacquers or stains that offgas and can affect the wine. From there, you can leave the wood as is, which we did in the Natural Dream Home, or add butcher-block oil for an even darker color."
