Are you a wine connoisseur who likes to share?
There's a house on the market in Duluth where you could host a tasting party surrounded by 2,000 bottles of vino. Guests enter the wine room through a bronze door, custom-aged to create a greenish patina. It's a separate entrance, so your oenophile friends don't have to set foot in the rest of your house — unless you want them to.
The wine room, filled with Tuscan design touches, is climate-controlled for the wine, but you can turn off the chiller and turn on the cozy fireplace.
"You can have dinner in there," said owner Diane Link.
And if any friends want to spend the night, there's a guest apartment above the wine room, with its own staircase.
Rob Link, a developer who died in 2016, built the custom home for himself in 1997.
"He built it for entertaining purposes," said Diane, his widow, who collaborated with him on the wine room. "We had some good parties there."
Rob grew up in the Twin Cities but came to Duluth in the 1980s and adopted it as his hometown, becoming active in downtown development. (His wine room contains a bar salvaged from one of his favorite watering holes, the Warehouse Bar in Canal Park.)