My cellar in progress - DYI

[JohnT]

Haha! Yes, I am already 60% filled in... Maybe 450 bottles was too little!

I will post a picture with the bottles soon

Please do! I really have to say that it looks very impressive. Your choice of all color and flooring really go with the stained wood. I need to keep a picture of this for future planning!

 

[wood1954]

Wow! very nice, sure puts to shame my cardboard boxes on their side.

 

[LeChat]

Please do! I really have to say that it looks very impressive. Your choice of all color and flooring really go with the stained wood. I need to keep a picture of this for future planning!

Actually, I did not stain the wood, the cherry comes out this color naturally.


Here are a few pics at 60% capacity. Next stop, full as can be!

I have a Cellar Craft Red Mountain cab that is dying to fill a row....

 

[LeChat]

Wow! very nice, sure puts to shame my cardboard boxes on their side.

Don't worry, we all start somewhere. I still have quite a few of those that I need to figure what to do with now that I have the rack....

 

[Boatboy24]

Actually, I did not stain the wood, the cherry comes out this color naturally.


Here are a few pics at 60% capacity. Next stop, full as can be!

I have a Cellar Craft Red Mountain cab that is dying to fill a row....

 

[Tess]

Very, Very nice indeed!!!

 

[vacuumpumpman]

WOW !! That is really great craftsmanship !!

keep it up - looks great

 

[Pumpkinman]

Wow! Fabulous!

 

[tonyt]

Love the color coded capsules.

 

[TheGoodLife]

Great work!

 

[RedRockGirl]

Beautiful

I have been trying to figure out dimensions and wood sizes to knock off a version of these
http://www.wineracksamerica.com/instacellar/standard/
and here you have already done it. Do you have any plans you built from that have measurements or spacing that might help me?
Thanks!

 

[TonyR]

Very nice. This is what I did for storage and it took part of a day's time.

 

[Olbuscap]

Red Rock Girl,
If you set the dimensions at 4 1/8" between vertical members and between bottle support members, you can use both 750 ml and 1.5 liter bottles.

 

[sour_grapes]

@TonyR : That is really nice. Are you saying you built those racks in less than a day?! I am seriously impressed. That would have taken me days!

 

[jayhkr]

Very nice. This is what I did for storage and it took part of a day's time.

What's the garlic for?

 

[JimmyT]

What's the garlic for?

To keep the vampires away from his dragons blood!!!!

 

[TonyR]

Garlic is from the garden. Nice cool dark place to store till I use it. Keeps the vampires out of my wine

 

[Putterrr]

Very nice my friend. Now I know why you needed all that tannin.

(cherry will darken over time)

cheers

 

[hardworkin]

Both racks look great. I need to stop making wine long enough to work on some racks myself. I'm afraid that I will have more bottles than I will rack space though.

 

[toneill]

LeChat, very nice, now that it's been a while since completion of your project, can you update us? I'd really like to know what you and others do for a fermentation area. I'm in Ohio, winters can get pretty cold. I need to build a separate room to accommodate about 8 carboys at once in controlled temps. Basements are hard to regulate unless you confine the space with separate heating. What's everyone else doing?

Thanks