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A 8,500 sq ft showcase of expert craftsmanship created from hand hewn Quebec white pine timbers includes an enormous array of wonderful details. The massive stone walkway leads you up to the entrance and inside. The great room, around which the entire home was designed, lifts the spirit over 45 feet to the peak.
The Connecticut fieldstone fireplace easily handles the largest logs, lending to the great camp feel. Archways, carved into the logs, lead you to the gourmet kitchen. Professional appliances, hand crafted cabinets, a dining porch, the island stands ready for guests - truly the heart of this home.
The dining room, formally inviting, stands before the Taconic Range of mountains, lending beauty and drama to any meal.
Walk onto the main front porch to enjoy an after-dinner glass of port, slip into the front hot tub and soak in the gardens and the view.
The master bedroom, with vaulted ceilings and fireplace, provides respite for the weary. The other 5 bedrooms in the main house provide respite for family and guests. The enormous playroom let's the children provide you with something to need respite from.
The wine cellar in the main house, with bluestone floors, mahogany racks, separate cooling and humidity units secure your liquid investments.
The vault, with bank door and concrete reinforcements secures the rest.
The free flowing gunite pool, with water fall, lighted lap lane and separate hot tub provides a focal point for outdoor entertaining. Situated next to the guest house and reached by descending a stone wall bordered walkway, you can wile away the hours splashing and basking in the sun.
The guest house has more than the typical amenities. The Adirondack inspired birch bark entrance is enhanced by the birch back fireplace - a truly magnificent architectural feature. The house, built above a climate controlled wine storage room - with room being a bit of an understatement - mahogany racks, tiled floors, enough space to hold formal tastings. Down the hall, again underground, you'll find a fully equipped indoor shooting range.
The grounds are as diverse as the rest of this magnificent offering. Travel across the rolling fields to the woodland paths - enough for a vigorous run, mountain bike ride or winter snowshoe - lead to the ridgeline, across the mountain, past the pond where the wood ducks nest, to your approximately 800 feet of shoreline on Chrysler Pond - a non-motorboat lake perfect for canoeing, bass fishing and open water swimming.
If life is indeed too short to drink bad wine, then it is also too short to live anywhere else. A short 2 hours from Manhattan.
$ 5,750,000.
GABEL REAL ESTATE
(518) 392-4975 TEL
(413) 528-1188 TEL
andrea@gabelrealestate.com
Members, Columbia County NY and Berkshire County MA Board of Realtors and MLS Services, Equal Housing Opportunities ®, Realtor ®. All information deemed accurate but subject to change without notification.