Built Around the Bottle: What Makes Heritage Vine Different
Anyone can install a wine rack. Building a wine cellar that performs flawlessly for decades is a different discipline entirely — and it's the only one Heritage Vine practices.
For almost twenty years, Heritage Vine has designed, manufactured, and installed custom wine cellars exclusively — not as a side offering bundled in with cabinetry or finish carpentry, but as the company's single focus. That distinction sounds small. In practice, it changes everything about how a cellar gets built.
08/17/2026
The Problem With "Just Add a Cellar"
Most of the repair calls Heritage Vine receives share the same root cause: the cellar was originally treated as a finishing detail rather than a precision-engineered thermal envelope. A generalist contractor gets the racking right and the vapor barrier wrong. The room looks beautiful on install day and starts failing within a few years — inconsistent temperatures, humidity swings, labels peeling, corks drying out.
Heritage Vine approaches the work in the opposite order. Every cellar is engineered around its cooling system and structural envelope before a single piece of racking is drawn. That means sizing for worst-case ambient conditions, building in continuous vapor barriers, specifying premium insulation, and selecting cooling systems from trusted names like Wine Guardian, WhisperKool, CellarPro, or LRC based on what the space actually demands. The design comes after the engineering is settled, not the other way around.
A Founder Who Only Builds Cellars
Heritage Vine was founded and is still led today by Jamie Dunjey, working out of the company's Scottsdale, Arizona headquarters. Jamie built the company around a singular idea: that a wine cellar deserves the same rigor as any piece of specialized construction, not a side project squeezed between other trades. That focus runs through the whole company — from the design consultation to the final install.
A Portfolio That Speaks for Itself
Trust in this industry tends to come from word of mouth and visible proof — and Heritage Vine has both. The company's work includes the custom wine cellar at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, the wine wall at Steak 48 Beverly Hills, the commercial cellar at La Tête d'Or in New York City, the wine wall at Peak Restaurant in Hudson Yards, the cellar at The Phoenix Country Club, a residential cellar at The Park House designed in collaboration with Jonathan Scott, and the commercial wine cellar at The Appellation Healdsburg in Sonoma County wine country.
That range — museums, private residences, hospitality groups, country clubs — is itself a signal. It means the engineering-first approach isn't a boutique exception; it's the standard applied at every scale.
Built for Where You Live
Heritage Vine operates from four primary locations — Scottsdale (headquarters and showroom), San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York — with installations completed nationwide. Clients work directly with the team from initial consultation through final walkthrough, whether the project is a private residence or a commercial hospitality space.
Recognized, Not Just Reviewed
The company's work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Time, New York Post, Phoenix Magazine, Phoenix Business Journal, and The Arizona Republic — coverage that consistently points back to the same throughline: thoughtful design, careful execution, and cellars built to perform over time, not just photograph well on day one.
The Core Value, In One Line
Every piece of this — the singular focus, the engineering-first process, the founder-led craftsmanship, the marquee portfolio — comes back to one idea: a cellar is a piece of equipment first, and furniture second. Get the equipment right, and the beauty holds up for as long as the wine does.
Ready to build a cellar engineered for the life of your collection, not just install day? Book a design consultation with Heritage Vine.
