Bulk Storage Wine Racks for Home Made Wine

Sweet! now I need a barstool and I will be all set for awhile! hahaha!
nice work!!!!!

-- dumpster diver delux

You put me to shame. My homemade wines are all in a big jumble in the garage. A lot are unlabeled, so when I open a bottle it can be a bit of a surprise.

-- Cad a dheanfaimid feasta gan adhmad.......?

very nice work, i wish i could taste some.

-- Ike, Big Daddies Woodshop, http://www.icombadaniels@yahoo.com

Great job Tom. I make wine too, out of kits and a little bit of fruit wine. Wish I had thought of a system like you have though for storing. I spent alot of time building individual racks. I like the square box idea alot better.

-- Dale in Bellevue, NE

The racks were pretty simple to build. Working in our spare time we got both of them built in approx one month. It’s all made out of 3/4” plywood with a 1/4” plywood back. biscuit joints locate the pieces and pocket screws clamped it together so glue ups would not keep us from continuing to work. They’re certainly not fine furniture but they are fulfilling their job real well. Unfortunately I’ve been working on some other stuff lately so there are now a few empty squares that need refilled. We plan to go on a pre summer wine and beer making spree here shortly.

The wine I make is out of the kits too. One kit makes 30 bottles. Actually we usually get 31 or 32 bottles per kit. We get the extra because I like to fill the final fermentation/aging container up to it’s thin neck to cut down on air exposure. In order to not water it down we use a similar variety of wine to top it off. A new batch even with slight over flow just fits into two of the squares.

We got accustomed to drinking good wine at a reasonable price when we lived in France. After moving back to the U.S. we found we could not afford good wine as a drink with meals anymore. The kits certainly saved the day. We can make good wine at around three dollars a bottle, and that’s when buying the more expensive kits.

-- There's no such thing as mistakes, just design changes.

I’m waiting for an invitation. :)

-- Erika, Hastings, ON, Canada

oh boy looks great man! my grandpa makes homeade wine too, i helped him with a vat or two and its a pretty complacated process, alot of margine for air, i do admire the people who can do that stuff and have it turn out so well.

-- ---ray suppan--- anger + woodworking = -finger AHHHHHHHH!!!!

looks great
cheers

Dennis

Would love to taste!
I am getting ready to build a unit similar for a client. How big are cubbies? 16”x 16”?

-- Randon Riegsecker, crosscutservices.com

Wow that holds tons of wine . a rally good job .

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

rando1, Sorry I didn’t answere sooner, just saw your question this morning. The dimensions are 14” wide, 12 1/4” tall, & 11 3/4” deep, all interior measurements. The squares hold more that a standard 12 bottle case, since we make our own wine we wanted larger capacity. Our squares hold 16 bottles each. The way we got the dimensions was by holding a larger box at a tilted angle and stacking in 16 bottles of our largest diameter wine bottles then measured the space needed.

-- There's no such thing as mistakes, just design changes.

Beautiful! Exactly what we were looking for! We absolutely LOVE the organization, the wood, and the wine.
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Glad you like it. It serves the purpose pretty good for bulk storage. I try to keep at least a couple hundred bottles on hand even though we go through about a bottle a day on average. We like to have a glass with meals and sometimes as desert too.

-- There's no such thing as mistakes, just design changes.

how or where can I get the specs for this, this is my 1st post so if i am out of line please let me know. I also make wine for personal consumption and for friends

Whoa.

How COOL !

And you have an amazing ability to look different from one picture to the next.

Very good looking, in either case, but … the difference is uncanny ;-)

A Sante, and … cheers to life on two wheels :-)

-- -- Neil