[frohe]

I'm curious what ya'll's using for your wine workroom and storage area. A cellar down here in Texas is rare and with the hot summers, you can rule out using the garage. Me, I use our kitchen for my work area, getting in there early Sunday mornings to get all my stuff done before the wifey gets up. I have a 3 shelf, rolling wire rack that I keep my primaries and secondaries on along with my other equipment. All racked and finished wines are in a spare bedroom on wire rack shelves. Oh, BTW, I'm not a bottler. I keep everything in 1 gallon glass jugs on the shelves, finally moving some to swing top bottles to chill before I attack them for my enjoyment.

So what are y'all using to make and store your wines?

[malweth]

We have a mostly finished basement that is a kids play area, so it's also tight. I use the basement bathroom as my work area. It's a hardly ever used, extra 3/4 bath. The space there is tight, but that also means it's a good place for fermentation (keeping it at 70+ isn't hard to do). The best part is the laundry sink - a 15-20 gallon basin sink... it's great for cleaning up, etc.

I haven't moved there yet, but bulk aging will be in the storage / furnace / workshop area of the basement. I thought it would be too hot because of the furnace, but when I tried to do secondary fermentation there it was far too cold (65 degrees). There's also a small closet I can use that should be cool. All three places will be no good during the summer (we don't have anyplace that stays cold, though the basement is better for summer heat).

Bottle storage eludes me right now. I don't have a big wine rack, but I can stack boxes in one of two small storage closets in the basement. I have no idea where to build a rack!

[Runningwolf]

I am fortunate enough to have a basement. The unfortunate thing is the more room you have the more out of control you get. I am up to about 30 vessel's right now in various stages. I have a separate room for wine storage that I recently out grew.

[KSmith3011]

I Built a fermentation closet in my unheated 10x10 shed. It has two chambers, the Primary is 78*, the secondary 62*. For long term storage I use the crawl space under the house. In winter it stays between 50-55* in the summer it can get up to 70* but only for a short time. It is not a perfect set up but it works for me.

[Wade E]

I too have a basement and like Runningwolf says, the more room you have the more you take advantage of it. I haveone room designated to fermenting and bulk aging and another for bottled wine.

[ellijaywinemaker]

I have a basement as well and just use a little corner of it. I am about to start building my 100 bottle wine rack.

[Wade E]

Sure looks nice and dark in there!

[ellijaywinemaker]

I keep the light down do not want it to mess with my liquid gold LOL

[Catfish]

I don't have much of a basement. Just this little dungeon where the furnace is. Also used for some storage. But now I use it for the wine until I get something else figured out. Did some racking last night and took a picture with my phone. Still gotta top up a few of the carboys. That's on tomorrows to do list.

[Wade E]

Actually my wine making room is also my furnace room which works out great as that room is not heated by any other means but the furnace keeps that room at around 71* all winter long and during the summer it stays about that temp also because we keep the door open and the outside door is right there. The wine cellar on the other hand due to being mailny all under ground on 2 walls and insulated on the other 2 stays around 55* for 3 seasons of the year but during the extreme summer I have to use a dehumifier to rid the room of excessive humidity which in turn raises the temp to about 63*.