Carmel Valley, California This Marcel Sedletzky-designed four-bedroom home has a dine-in wine cellar with barrel-vault ceilings and extensive shelving. The 1971 house features creative angles and window placement, redwood walls, stained-glass fireplace surrounds, a chef's kitchen, and a conversation pit. The 1.
23-acre La Rancheria lot has a one-bedroom guesthouse, pool, deck, terraced plantings, and fountain; local wineries abound , and Carmel‐by‐the‐Sea 's 17 tasting rooms are 20 minutes' drive. $4,995,000. Courtney Stanley and Skip Marquard, Sotheby's International Realty–Carmel Valley Brokerage, (831) 293-3030 .
Houston, Texas The climate-controlled glass wine vault of this land-marked house comes with a rolling ladder for the topmost bottles on its floor-to-ceiling built-ins. The 1958 five-bedroom home, once owned by former Texas Gov. John B.
Connally , has a gold-topped circular foyer and Greek-columned gallery leading to the reception rooms, and an eat-in gourmet kitchen with a wine refrigerator. The formally landscaped lot in River Oaks, 15 minutes from downtown, includes a patio, pool, pool-house gym, lawns, and mature trees. $7,995,000.
Laura Sweeney, Compass, (713) 503-0700 . Indianapolis, Indiana This 1996 Mediterranean Revival includes a 1,750-bottle wine cellar with stone floors and a wrought-iron chandelier. The four-bedroom house, designed by J.
Landfair Welty, features a vaulted great room with Palladian French doors and carved limestone fireplace, eat.
