No, spout down is correct. So when you loosen the heavy-duty paperclip on the hose you installed, the wine flows easily.

Ian

If corked are unclear as to horizontal, boxed will be an enigma. Seems to me your wine racks for "boxed wine" would not require much engineering.

It's true I don't store my scotch horizontal. Why is that?

Thought I would bring these over from my Europe trip thread. Wandered down into this relic wine celler yesterday deep in the bowls of Brennhausen.
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Did find a live one on the wall rack, turned out to be a 2004 Sonoma. Funny!

Mostly just old bottles stashed, But this could really be made into a fine wine celler if there were more wine drinkers in the family. Lots of good beers to be tasted in the area.

Cheers Richard

Whoo. You guys put me to shame. I'm one of those godless fellows who cellar wine for about five minutes.

Here's mine....

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Timely thread. Just finished my wine cellar as part of a basement renovation...Here's some picshttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1370115848.jpg


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Few more pics:
Holds about 750 bottles in a fairly small space. I used the Instacellar racking system from Wine Racks America

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That looks awesome! Are you using a thermo-electric temp/humidity control or conventional compressor?

Thanks Todd.
Conventional compressor. The basement is very cool as it is, and it wasn't budgetarily realistic for me (after replacing our oil furnace, adding a full home natural gas back up generator, redoing plumbing and electrical infrastructure, and, an assortment of other "while you're in there's") to try to keep the room <60 deg, so I'm going with the attitude that it is consistently cool, but not aggressively chilled, basically it has a dedicated "zone" of A/C

It looks like you're off to a great start. Cheers!

"Wine cellar? We don need no steenking wine cellar"

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Gorgeous.

Plus 1 :D

Although I do have a few really nice ones that I am keeping.

Simply lovely. Cedar backing is a nice touch. I like them all, especially the old European stone cellar, though it looks a bit picked over.

Hey, what can I say...I live in a condo. ;)

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here a picture of my "wine cellar" from 6-7 yrs ago.. well...technically not mine but I paid for most of it and built all of it.. she kept all of it. oh well..I don't like wine anyway lol
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Good planning.



What I've been doing is keeping an eye on the pinot noirs produced in Central Otago, NZ, at the supermarket, and when I see one at a very friendly price (half price) I buy a bottle and open it that evening. If it's any good I go back the next day and buy a case or two. Then when they are starting to run out I pull the same stunt again.






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I cellar wine in a Coleman cooler in my basement.

In laws are currently having this one finished... IMO the doors are the best part and you cant see them. Hand made, arched top with 400y/o glass out of a home in Ireland

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