New Cellar not finished. I moved in anyway.

[Rodrigo_B]

Curious as to why you didn’t go with taller racking on the back wall since there seems to be space for it. I really like the counter top. Plenty of space to set bottles up for a while, to open bottles, etc. All around very cool. Nice job.

I originally built the two lowboy units to fit under a workbench in my basement. They have chilling units that circulate cold water thru the bottle hoops.
For the one on the back wall I’ll build an upper section that attaches to the lower unit, to at least double the capacity per sqft of floor.
A wall mounted rack will go above the quartz top for another 100 bottle capacity.
The Danby refrigerator will be replaced with a freestanding rack much like the one Anton D won in the BD auction a few years ago.

I need a special shelf to display some of my empty “trophy bottles” - first growths and other great '70s-'80s BDX. They won’t stay on the counter for long.

It looks great already, excited to see what it looks like finished. Do update us when it’s all completed.

[Chris_Foley]

Are those commercial baker’s racks?

No. I made those from scratch to fit Bordeaux OWCs. 180 bottles capacity per double wide rack.

[stephenmarks]

Are those commercial baker’s racks?

No. I made those from scratch to fit Bordeaux OWCs. 180 bottles capacity per double wide rack.

Excellent work

[Jim_F]

I went with an inexpensive pre-hung exterior door.
My wife doesn’t understand why I didn’t get a solid door, since I plan on installing a shade anyway.

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Yeah my first wine cellar I used a solid door. Second one was a storage room I converted with blow-in insulation including into an internal hollow-core door…which was over-filled and nearly “exploded”, well, started coming apart. It was salvageable and worked quite well.

[Jay_Miller]

Nice! May you have many years of enjoyment from it.

[Jonathan_Jaggers]

Nice job - enjoy the “christening”!

[C_Mc_Cart]

Looks amazing, especially those case racks, but one question - why do you have a wine fridge in there? Just for the extra racking? Don’t imagine you’d want it plugged in and producing heat.

[Chris_Foley]

Looks amazing, especially those case racks, but one question - why do you have a wine fridge in there? Just for the extra racking? Don’t imagine you’d want it plugged in and producing heat.

The fridge was from my dad. I won’t need it any more so my younger brother well inherit it soon. I’ll build one of my racks to replace it.

[CJ_Beazley]

Are those commercial baker’s racks?

No. I made those from scratch to fit Bordeaux OWCs. 180 bottles capacity per double wide rack.

Funny, me and my daughter were just discussing oxymorons due to a school assignment and I said one of my favorites was ‘square tubing’. Great job, if you really wanted to keep track of inventory you could cellar tracker those row B box 4 etc.
Enjoy.

[LoriMcLaughlin]

Nice job! Love the metal racks with the wood cases. Great idea!

[Chris_Foley]

… if you really wanted to keep track of inventory you could cellar tracker those row B box 4 etc.
…

I prefer names over row/column style labels. For simplicity, all wine in wood boxes, the bins are the name on the box. For instance I have a single bottle of 2014 Le Petit Haut Lafitte in Bin “Capbern” in Location “Case Rack 2”.
The open racks have bins like 1Top, 2ndRow, 3rdRow, etc. I never have to look at more than a dozen or so bottles to find the exact one I want.

[G_Curd]

Looks great Chris. Like many others, I think the racks of boxes looks great and makes the cellar look 100 times better. Very cool.

[SGraf]

Love your cellar and all the work you’ve put into it. The case racks are great! Really stand out and are unique.

[Mattstolz]

i like the idea of the OWC as drawers! nice touch

[Markus_S]

Very cool! Enjoy!

[Anton_D]

Wow – congrats. That looks really nice. My guess – the trim work will probably not get done. Which is ok.

We usually finish our projects just as we are moving out.

[Anthony_C]

How do you all get OWC’s? I just jumped on some 2019 futures but probably didn’t buy enough to get the crates. But that has me wondering, do you have to get a 12 or do they have crates for 6 or 3’s? I would like to build a small rack for the middle of my cellar that is exactly crate sized and maybe 3 units tall.

Thanks.

[Chris_Foley]

A little update. The cellar window is fully sealed without making a permanent closure, and the wine fridge has been replaced with a 120 bottle rack.
Some of the baseboard has been installed.

[Bruce_Rudman]

Very nice!

[R_M_Kriete]

Jealous!