Some of the best private collections of wine anywhere are in the Palisades. A few of the super rich (in wines) declined to be interviewed for this article, but here is a sampling of a few local collectors who love wine.

Neil and Cindy Selman bought their home on Latimer Road in 1987. Cindy visited Latimer Road many years before, and fell in love with it, and when she and Neil were looking for a home in the Palisades, she remembered its beauty, and was delighted to find a home for sale there.

Both were also pleasantly surprised to find that the prior owner had built a concrete and reinforced steel bomb shelter attached to the house, with a filtered air supply and plumbing, but converted to a wine cellar with wine shelves already installed.

Recalling their early dates before they married, when they drank 'nectar ros',' the Selmans began to collect wines in 1982, and moved the collection to their new cellar when they moved to the Palisades.