Wine Storage Solutions

@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.

@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.

@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!