Girish Jhunjhnuwala's pride and joy is his new wine cellar. With elegant grey slate walls, it houses more than 1,000 bottles of fine wine, champagne and port that he has been collecting for 20 years. His impressive collection ranges from vintage Dom Perignon and Grand Cru Classes from all of France's premier regions, to an eclectic assortment of New World icons including an entire shelf of revered Grange Hermitage from the Barossa in South Australia.
The cellar is part of his 'den', a private hideaway reserved for relaxing and entertaining friends on the ground floor of his expansive residence in Pok Fu Lam.
Complete with LED mood lighting that changes from red and orange to green, blue or yellow, a bar, wide-screen TV and hi-fi system, it is accessible only by a coded electronic entry locking system - a wise precaution given the value of the wine inside.
'This is my own space,' he says, with an understandable air of contentment. 'Even my wife doesn't know the code to the door.' Neither do their three teenage children.
After all, the business prospers on his knack of transforming space. Essentially, he acquires buildings and remodels them to earn more money than they did before within the same square footage.
