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I was actually going to ask how you keep track of which wine is where. Maybe an excel spreadsheet with cells corresponding to rack location?

Or you could always just load up on a bunch of wine tags:


and list the front and back wine on each one.

Virginia has great seasons, and at least one person who enjoys great wine and speakers.

Adam,

I usually buy three bottles of whatever I want to try. I drink one right away (after it rests for two weeks), then I keep the other two for.... however long that is. I've found that sometimes I'll try a bottle and not like it, to only like it later. So, each bin will have two of the same bottles in it. I do not stack double deep if I only have one of that particular bottle. I've got around 450 bottles so far, so I have plenty of room to not need to hide them. But as my collection grows, I'll have to come up with a numbering system for the bins. I use Personal Wine Curator V3 for my inventory software. It has provisions for locations. I've found this software to be very handy. I thought about using tags, but they come with their own aggravations.

Peter,

Virginia?? I thought you lived in California? When did you move?? I was stationed outside Virginia Beach for a while, but never ventured inland.

I'm the reverse.

I use the bottle tags and have yet to commit to the software. The bottle tags make it uber easy to locate what you want by eye. I just did a typical sorting by continent or country first (i have the cellar sections labeled at the top with concrete/stone headers hanging from the ceiling) and then i sort alphabetically by the brand name.
If one section gets too full i have to pull and resort some bottles now and again, but that is when having enough capacity makes the shuffling easy.

I moved in December '05. Maybe you lost track of me during our mutual cooling off period in the aftermath of the infamous politics thread?

If you come up to the Peterborough area I'm going to get you to make me the sweetest wheelchair ramp ever!

Having a few drinks with the Parents and got onto the subject of wine cellars. I remembered this thread and told them about it.... Had to pull up the thread to show the pictures to the parents... Truly amazing pics!

Thanks David! My cellar and HT are my favorite rooms in my house. I’d hate to loose either…… The downside to having a cellar is this strange need to fill all the bins. It gets quite expensive.

And then once the bins are full, one is hesitant about taking a good wine out of the bin like it was a gem that you know you will never see again.
Kinda like watching a woman eating her favorite box of chocolates knowing they leave their favorite one until the end and that box with one piece left in it stays on the counter in the kitchen for about two months as they look at it everyday knowing if they eat that last piece, then there's no more.

Hah! I guess I'll never make a good oenopile. If it suites my taste, I drink it and hope I can pick up more.