Let's raise a glass

Homes with wine cellars offer discerning buyers climate-controlled conditions that let collections age gracefully, so that every gathering becomes a toast-worthy triumph. Cheers!

- Julie Harding

Warwickshire, £3.5 million

Once installed in Oldfield Farm, why would a new buyer want to move beyond the confines of its boundary? This five-bedroom home, you see, has everything a new incumbent could possibly need for themselves and any invitees, from a party/games room and a gym to a substantial indoor swimming-pool complex that also includes a sauna and a cinema room. An attractive, almost circular wine cellar measures 10ft by 6½ft. Grade II-listed, historic features, such as exposed beams, meet modern comfort in this family home located in Rowington. Guests or family could even stay in the separate one-bedroom cottage set within the almost 17 acres of grounds that include landscaped gardens and three fields. Also in the grounds is an elevated moated orchard. Believed to have been the site of a lookout tower associated with Warwick Castle, it is a designated Ancient Monument and as such will be a great talking point for all those gatherings fuelled by wine from the cellar. Knight Frank (01789 297735)

Warwickshire, £2.5 million