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The #1 brand for wine cellars
La Sommelière inspires the wine cellar market, constantly adapting to consumer needs and expectations. Thanks to our ideas and innovative technologies, we are one of the leading brands of wine cellars for private and professional customers.
The company is growing and reinventing itself. We are concerned by our customers' need for excellence in wine storage and preservation, and we apply our experience and skills to our product ranges on a daily basis.
La Sommelière in 2024
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Test La Sommelière Apogée: should you fall for these designer wine cellars?
If you're reading this article, you may already be familiar with the most bitter frustration of wine lovers and other budding oenologists...
How to Choose the Right Wine Cellar?
If you want to purchase a wine cellar, it is essential to consider your needs in order to make the right choice and find a cellar that will serve you well in the long term.
How to Choose the Right Wine Cellar?
Once reserved for professionals, the wine cellar is now becoming more accessible. It is an essential tool for preserving and enjoying wine in optimal conditions.
Ecellar by La Sommelière: More Than Just a Wine Cellar, a Sommelier at Home!
A Truly Connected Wine Cellar!
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True French luxury
Top-of-the-range, designer, French and above all connected, Ecellar products from La Sommelière have revolutionized the wine preservation market with a unique and innovative approach ...
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Conserver le vin, the French success story of La Sommelière
Little by little, the Sarthe-based company, with its hundred or so employees, has taken part in the great movement to popularize this increasingly elegant piece of furniture for storing your favorite bottles. To grow, ...
Wine cellars La Sommelière, our opinion
La Sommelière offers a range of top-of-the-range models, each with its own specific features to preserve your most precious bottles until you're ready to enjoy them.
CES 2024: a smart, connected wine cellar
The French company La Sommelière has designed the first connected wine cellar. From their mobile application, you can check the stock status and identity of your bottles.
La Sommelière in 2023
Geek Culture: Wine Tech, innovation for wine, by Anthony Morel
This Wednesday, October 4, in Culture Geek, Anthony Morel looks back at wine-related innovations such as the Coravin, the smart cellar and the smart bottle. You can watch or listen to this column from Monday to Friday on Good Morning Business.
Five objects, connected or not, that will change your home.
The home is an endless source of inspiration, and whether connectivity is added or not, this IFA 2023 brings its share of original concepts and products. We've picked out five that could change your home life.
At IFA Berlin, Groupe Frio showcased its connected wine cellars.
On stand no. 103, Hall 3.1 at IFA Berlin, the Frio Group, Europe's leading manufacturer of wine cellars, exhibited its latest products under the La Sommelière, Climadiff, Avintage and Temptech brands.
The best solutions for storing wine at home
A room converted into a cellar, a custom-built cellar, an underground cellar, an ageing cabinet: depending on the space available in your home, you can choose from a wide range of options. Here are the best solutions for aging wine at home.
The connected wine cellar: gadget or useful innovation?
Even wine cellars can't escape the connectivity trend. But why is this feature really relevant?
A pioneer in the democratization of the wine cellar, La Sommelière is 30 years old!
Thirty years of passion and commitment to making wine conservation and temperature control accessible to all.
La Sommelièreeurope's leading wine cellar celebrates its 30th anniversary!
The Frio Group, based in Arnage (Sarthe), France, La Sommelière celebrates 30 years of expertise as Europe's leading brand of wine cellars.
Léa Perret, ambassador for the Apogée cellars at La Sommelière.
"What could be more fitting on March 8th than to highlight a woman? Léa Perret was crowned France's best young wine merchant in 2022, and is now also a La Sommelière ambassador. (...) "
La Sommelièreeurope's leading wine cellar celebrates its 30th anniversary!
Tasting and preserving wine is an expertise that has been honed over the years. La Sommelière is the embodiment of this expertise. The historic brand of wine cellars, La Sommelière is celebrating 30 years of excellence.
Léa Perret, ambassador for the Apogée cellars at La Sommelière.
"Apogée: The latest technological innovation from La Sommelière, a Frio Group brand, the Apogée range enhances the group's range of connected wine cellars. (..) "
ECELLAR: a smart, useful, connected wine cellar!
"Everything in the home is becoming connected and tech-savvy, even small household appliances! From coffee makers to wine cellars and toasters, we take a look at these smart (...) "
APOGEE, FRIO inaugurates an intelligent, connected wine cellar.
"APOGEE150PV: A modern yet vintage aging cellar that breaks the mould with its rounded shape and Vinotag app for remote control of parameters (...) "
La Sommelière in 2022
The first intelligent wine cellar from La Sommelière
"During the spring revival, La Sommelière won gold at the Grand Prix de l'Innovation (GPI d'or) with the ECELLAR185, its smart, connected wine cellar. The ECELLAR150, a more Cartesian and compact version of its glorious predecessor (...)"
The 100% connected French wine cellar that revolutionizes wine storage
"La Sommelière, a Frio Group brand, launches ECELLAR150, the compact version of ECELLAR185, winner of the Grand Prix de l'Innovation 2022. An intelligent tool for storing and managing your wine stock, revolutionizing the world of wine cellars (...)"
Frio innovates in the buoyant wine cellar market
"From a simple application to cutting-edge on-board technology, the term "connected" is gaining momentum; the 2022 Paris Fair has settled the matter by awarding the Grand Prix de l'Innovation 2022 to the ECELLAR185 (...)"
Didier Grychta, CEO of the Frio Group: "We're drinking less wine than before, but we're drinking it better"
"Ageing cellars, custom-made service cellars, built-in or freestanding cellars. In the space of a decade, the wine cellar market has grown from a handful of models to several hundred (...)"
Sarthe: The world's first "truly intelligent wine cellar" gets a big boost
"La Sommelière, the market leader in wine cellars, claims to have invented the world's first "truly intelligent wine cellar". (...)"
This Sarthe-based group has invented a smart, connected wine cellar
"European leader in the wine cellar market, the Frio Group, based in Arnage, won the Grand Prix de l'Innovation 2022 (...)"
Foire de Paris: discover the Grand Prix de l'Innovation Electroménager 2022 shortlist
"With just a few days to go before the opening of the Paris Fair, registration for the Grand Prix de l'Innovation 2022 is now closed. (...)"
Connected wine cellar from a Sarthe company wins Grand Prix de l'Innovation award
"The Grand prix de l'innovation d'Or. It was with this distinction that the Sarthe-based Frio group left the 2022 edition of the Paris Fair. (...)"
Wine cellar, folding cardboard bed, connected wheel: innovations at Paris Fairs 2022
"After a three-year absence due to Covid, the Foire de Paris is back. As always, this event dedicated to the world of the home is packed with innovations (...)"
Le 6-9 France Bleu Maine
"Chronicle - Didier Grychta, president of the Frio Group, is invited to present his connected wine cellar. Itw from him. The Frio Group, with the La Sommelière brand, is the French leader in wine cellars. (...)"
Connected wine cellar from a Sarthe company wins Grand Prix de l'Innovation award
"The Grand Prix de l'Innovation d'Or. It is with this distinction that the Sarthe-based Frio group (...)"
The GPI Paris trade fair: IT'S RE-PARTY!
"The GPI d'or was awarded to La Sommelière for its connected refrigerated cellar, a world first; its shelves are equipped with sensors and report every bottle movement to the Vinotag® application (...)"
La Sommelière Millesime160, a cellar where wine ages well
"Millesime160, the latest creation from La Sommelière, is an ageing wine cellar designed to blend into interiors with style (...)"
How smart is your future wine cellar?
"Fridge, oven, radiator, shutter, lighting... more and more connected objects are finding their way into our homes and becoming indispensable. (...)"
The 5 products that caught our eye at the Paris Fair
"The Paris Fair runs from April 28 to May 9. Le Figaro went there to bring you a portrait of the most original items. (...)"
Introducing the new MILLESIME160 ageing cellar
"Specializing in wine preservation since 1993, the Frio Group brand La Sommelière presents its latest creation: the MILLESIME160 (...)"
MILLESIME160, THE AGEING WINE CELLAR
"The French brand specializing in wine preservation, La Sommelière, unveils its new Millesime160 ageing wine cellar, designed for seasoned oenology enthusiasts.(...)"
La Sommelière ECellar185: the more-than-perfect wine cellar
"Are you ready to witness a small revolution in wine cellar management? The ECellar from La Sommelière is not just another connected wine cellar... (...)"
La Sommelière in 2021
La Sommelière develops the first intelligent wine cellar
"The historic brand of wine cellars, La Sommelière is revolutionizing the market with a 2.0 model: the Ecellar185. Combined with an app, it allows you to view a digital register in real time (...)"
BSmart, "Smart Tech
"Le lab - The FRIO Group, chaired by Didier Grychta, launches the Vinotag app and a connected wine cellar"
Frio innovates in the buoyant wine cellar market
"The Frio Group continues to grow. The refrigeration specialist, whose core business is wine cellars, reports sales of €60 million over a rolling 12-month period, compared with €50 million three years ago.
The Frio Group presents a range of Vinotag-compatible wine cellars
"Vinotag is a wine registry application developed by the Frio Group, French and European leader in wine cellars with brands La Sommelière, Climadiff, Avintage. (...)"
ECellar185, connected wine cellar with nearly 14 million references
"ECellar185 is a 100% French innovation launched this month. This intelligent cellar alerts oenophiles in real time to its contents and optimizes aging (...)"
Frio innovates in the buoyant wine cellar market
"From now on, La Sommelière will be offering a new ageing cellar with a revolutionary concept: the Ecellar185, a connected, intelligent wine cellar made 100% in France. (...)"
Lovers of long-keeping wines, sleep easy
"Does your love of wine know no bounds? Then protect and preserve your nectars with the first connected wine cellar with a tech name, the ECellar185. (...)"
La Sommelière launches its connected wine cellar
"Ecellar185, an innovation from the Sarthe-based Frio group, has entered the market. Controlled via a smartphone application, this "intelligent and connected" wine cellar is designed to optimize stock management (...)"
La Sommelière launches its connected wine cellar
"The Ecellar185 cellar is designed to age wines in the best possible conditions: controlled hygrometry, filtered air, absence of UV rays and vibrations (...)"
La sommelière launches a connected wine cellar
"French leader in wine cellars, the Frio Group launches a model coupled with an app. The sector continued to grow in 2020. (...)"
La nouvelle éco: the sommelier launches a connected wine cellar
"Every wine lover has the problem of keeping track of his stock. We're solving it with this connected cellar", says Didier Grychta, president of the Frio Group. (...)"
When high-tech bottles wine
"A connected cellar? Smartphone alerts to uncork a great vintage at just the right moment? An express, intelligent wine aerator (...)"
Ecellar 185, the connected wine cellar for easy bottle management
An aging cellar that the French manufacturer describes as "the world's first connected wine cellar"(...)"
La Sommelière launches ECELLAR185 connected wine cellar
"Its racks instantly detect when bottles are added or removed, and report each movement to the application for a record (...)"
ECELLAR185, an ingenious connected wine cellar
"The brand has taken the time to refine its copy, and like a fine wine, this top-of-the-range device, which will be launched in June, has improved (...)"
Wine cellar guide: Top 5
"Welcome to the epicurean guide (...) this guide lists wine cellars that we have selected for their good ratings (...)"
La Sommelière intelligent wine cellar
"Last May it offered a world first to wine lovers with the announcement of the ECellar 185, the world's first true connected wine cellar. (...)"
A showroom for IoT start-ups
"OfficeRiders recently installed in its kitchen the Ecellar185 wine cellar from La Sommelière, the French expert in wine preservation, identical to the one shown here with its 168 bottle spaces. (...)"
La Sommelière in 2018
The Best Aging Cellars
"If you don't have an underground cellar at home, ageing cabinets now represent a (...)"
La Revue du Vin de France
The ECELLAR185
"Managing a well-stocked cellar is an art. The oenophile must be able to find his way between white, red, sparkling and young wines (...)"
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