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Good link Mike.
I'll add that to the bookmarks and peruse it later today. This afternoon we are heading out onto the deck to sip a nice Quady Elysium, something that was actually mentioned earlier in this thread.
I prefer the Electra, but my wife has yet to try either. Should be nice on a semi hot day.

That Chilean Concha y Toro Don Melchor i mentioned is a $40 Cdn bottle and is a cellaring wine, but short term if i recall, 5-7 years more in bottle.
Ours was already 4 years in the bottle when we tried it so i doubt it would have seen much more maturing for another year or two.

I did alot of searching on wine coolers not long ago until we decided to make the cellar. We almost went that route ourselves with a 300 bottle dark wood design unit. They are incredibly expensive, probably about half the cost of our cellar, or more depending on the brand. A 300 bottle unit is easily 3-4k.

This Koolspace unit was the one we bought for our cellar. The price listed here seems much less than the Cdn equivalent. I believe it cost us over $800 but i would have to go back to the basement reno receipts to check.
It is quiet and does a great job. There is a squirrel cage fan inside which helps keep the noise to a minimum. The compressor rarely needs to come on and when it does, it is a vaguely audible hum.

>>Once i get it up and running and everything entered, i should be able to get a better idea of where my preferences seem to be based on percentages chosen and stocked.

One of my friends once mentioned that he received a better understanding of his preferences based on what he ran out of, ie if he had a lot of something in the cellar it usually meant he didn't like it

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ie if he had a lot of something in the cellar it usually meant he didn't like it

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And this is why i will never sign up for a mixer's box, or wine club that selects wines for you. I only buy a single bottle of new wines to try and decide if i want to buy more. Wines that i have had more than twice and continually be fascinated by the flavours are the wines that make it to the cellar in quantities of 4-6.
Lately we tend to have a number of red wines vs white in the cellar and i have figured the cause is due to the hot summer we have had. We have found ourselves drinking more light, whites out on the patio and only the odd red with a bbq.
Hence, a seasonal pattern which will balance again in any given year.
Isn't it amazing how the weather can drive so many indirectly related things?

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You mean this damned heat is actually causing more and more people to believe that global warming isn't a myth?

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Only until next summer when the weather turns to something other than heat, then all will be forgotten, again. In the meantime, you drink more white zinfandel.

Thanks for the link. Did you get your racks from this place? They are different than what I had in mind, but heck, I can’t build them for what they sell them for. What do you think of the cleat stile vrs the diagonal X stile?

We got our racking from this place, Genuwine Cellars.

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What do you think of the cleat stile vrs the diagonal X stile?

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The individual bottle racks will hold less number of bottles compared to the diagonal bins or cross bins. The bins are more designed to hold a quantity of the same wine. I think one of those bins can hold about 16 bottles while 16 bottles of individual racking takes up another 50%? space.

Moving over to a new job in two weeks so i decided to crack something a bit more expensive tonight to celebrate.
A nicely chilled bottle of Oyster Bay Sav blanc from New Zealand. Very lime, fresh cut grass, effervescence and darn tart. Just makes you want to stick out your tongue.