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As more people come to appreciate the wisdom of buying wine by the case, they’re contemplating the installation of a home wine cellar to store and protect their vinous investments, whether they live in a one-bedroom apartment or a house with room to spare. This concise, helpful book by respected New York Times wine writer Howard G. Goldberg offers basic guidance on planning, organizing, and maintaining a wine collection, with tips on how to choose the right storage system, create the proper climatic environment, and keep track of what’s there and when it’s ready to drink. Goldberg also presents a fascinating history of wine collecting, with wonderfully entertaining stories of some famous cellars.

Howard G. Goldberg, a staff member of the New York Times since 1970, has been a wine writer there since 1984. He writes a Sunday feature called "Wine Under $20" and a Sunday column on Long Island wines in the paper's Long Island section. He is the American-auction columnist for Decanter magazine and the New York correspondent for decanter.com.