Cellar lighting

[Hal]

When my wine cellar is finished in a year or so, I expect to have a single flourescent fixture behind a soffet. My guests will never see this light however. I'll say "Let's go choose a bottle of wine from the cellar" as I light the three beeswax tapers on a rather Gothic candelabra and we descend into the basement. Once downstairs, against the rough hewn granite of the foundation at the back end of the house, I pull gently on an iron wall sconce, and the heavy oak door of the wine cellar clicks open. We duck slightly to clear the passageway and I set the candelabra down on a barrel. The air is still and cool as the shadows dance among the wooden racks. I flash a grin at my guest and say "Shall we open a '99 Columbia Crest Grand Estates Cabernet Sauvignon, or go crazy and have the 1997 Taurino Salice Salentino Riserva?"<p>[This message has been edited by Hal (edited 10-21-2002).]