Wine Storage Solutions
4I wanted to start this thread because:
- I just made some racks and wanted to share
- It would have been nice to see your solutions
These racks are for my excess wine that was in boxes on the basement floor. Note the empty spaces (not enough of them), awaiting de negoce shipments.
I bought 4 (one is in the wine cellar) Target 48" x 72" x 18" steel racks, and divided them with sections of 16" wire closet shelving from Lowes, all held together with zip ties. Cost about $100/rack and took about two hours to assemble each.
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As long as you don’t live in earthquake country looks great!
@ScottW58 True. No earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes or floods.
@FritzCat Nice work… I would worry slightly about any light coming in from that window.
@ttboy23 Yeah, it’s on the North side of the house behind some cypress/cedar type trees. What concerned me more was the two incandescent can lights just above the top 6-packs. I was wondering what type of bulb I could use to generate the least heat.
@FritzCat LED floods will be less heat
@pjmartin I’ll swap them out today. Thanks.
Singlehandedly ridding the environment of excess styrofoam.
@FritzCat
Looks like a good solution and nicely affordable at around 50 cents per bottle if I am doing the math correctly. Nothing like what you did at your mother’s place, though. I’m surprised you didn’t dig up that thread?
@chipgreen That must have been around ten years ago! I still have those shelves in the cellar, moved them with the wine to our new house. They are more classic, but they took forever to build. I wanted a simpler solution, and really wanted to get some clever ideas from fellow Woo…, Casemates for all our benefit.
@FritzCat thanks for sharing! I like the dividers. They looked SO familiar and I was trying to figure them out then I read your explanation.
This is similar to what I have. Originally planned to use wood but the wines were coming in so fast from splits, etc.! I had to come up with a quick fix.
@FritzCat
I didn’t know you did that work so long ago. Was shared more recently, when KNmeh posted about the racks he built. There is another Casemates thread or two about racks and I know there were some threads about it on the old site. Personally, I took the easy way out and bought pre-assembled racks from Amazon.
If you check out the customer pics for this wine rack you’ll see mine in the last two.
They now have an almost identical but bigger rack for less money made by a different company HERE. It holds 15 more bottles and costs $20 less.
@chipgreen Very classy looking. And…less $ and work than mine. Mine look a little more densely packed. The cost of yours is compelling. And, it appears that yours are far more earthquake-proof.
@chipgreen Oenophilia, that was a great album. Always loved The Who.
@chipgreen @InFrom Shirley you jest. But I have listened to my Tommy Album scores of times.
@chipgreen @FritzCat @InFrom Who’s Shirley?
@chipgreen @FritzCat @InFrom @klezman Back in 2016 I ordered a 152 bottle “Black Metal Lattice” wine rack from Walmart. I built a locking cabinet around it so it is very stable. Relocated here to Missouri when we moved.
@InFrom
Wine, reign o’er me!
@FritzCat
Thankfully we don’t get earthquakes here either and only screwed into the paneling, don’t think I was lucky enough to hit any studs so they are practically free-standing but have not moved at all in 8 years.
One thing I am glad I did was to set the racks on 2"x10" planks instead of directly on the floor. That room has taken in water a handful of times but the bottles in the bottom row of the racks have been raised just enough to remain unscathed. Wish I could say the same about the overflow in boxes on the floor, haha but a little water damage to the labels doesn’t hurt the wine any.
@chipgreen @InFrom @klezman The proper response is “No, I’m serious, and please don’t call me Shirley.”
@chipgreen Yeah, my cats would use your cellar as a jungle gym. I can’t use any tags on bottles as that is like bait.
@chipgreen @InFrom @klezman @Mark_L Would be interesting to see a photo.
@FritzCat @InFrom @ScottW58
Clearly I need to dig a basement.
@rjquillin A real benefit of living in the North Country. One of few… A friend of mine, years ago, lived in Santa Rosa, CA and had a house built and did have a cellar dug just for his wine collection that he had moved from Europe. Very impressive!
Nice use of the styrofoam inserts - we have a smaller version with just four of the inserts stacked up 2x2 and tilted back against the wall (we do have earthquakes). I like the shelving frame idea.
If you’re looking for a very nice bulk storage solution, I’ve purchased a couple of these in the past that have been great: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Wine-Enthusiast-Professional-120-Bottle-Natural-Wine-Chiller/1000364629
@deadlyapp Sweet! Below is the one that I built…long ago.
And yes, it was cheap, but took forever to build.
I found this thread interesting, but I am struggling as I do not need anything as fancy as what was presented.
Does anyone have a method that I can take my current storage method to the next level, without having to build wine racks?
@Drez143 That your boxes are labeled is better than i did when living out of cardboard.
Depends what your goal is – just getting it out of cardboard? Get metal shelving, block off the sides, and stack away. Harder to get to the bottles at the bottom of a shelf, though.
If you want to be able to get to one bottle at a time, you’re gonna want wine-specific shelving. If your area is already climate controlled, look on Craigslist for a broken wine fridge/cellar which would already have racking. They’re usually cheap or free (just costly and difficult to move)
@Drez143 You’ve got a good start there, but you’re on a slippery slope…
Well it looks like you only have 6 cases? I don’t think I would call that a storage problem…yet
@ScottW58 plus the vodka should be in the freezer anyway.
Use the boxes that come with foam inserts. That’s an upgrade from the cardboard ones.
All good solutions. Boxes with foam inserts work well:
And a recent solution for my overflow…steel wire shelves, separated by pieces of steel wire closet shelving held together with zip ties. Had to buy a bolt cutter from Harbor Freight to cut the wire shelving.
@FritzCat Oh, this one’s at the top of the thread. Sorry to repeat.