How do you store your wine [+ Fridge/Cabinet recommendations]

[VPS]

Hi All, thought i share my home wine cellar setup which ive just completed as I hope some might find it as a useful reference. (Roughly $12k all up costs)

My house was a new build and I added a wall to the standard floorplan to form the room.

Insulation ($4700 through builder): r2.5 batts in the walls/r4 in ceiling + 60mm kooltherm k17 plaster boards on all walls

Steel frame door with double glaze+low e glass ($4000 supply and installed). Note this is for aesthetics, not great for temp control (was gonna get a upvc door but wife overuled) but ive sealed the gaps with rubber/foam door seals.

Mitsubishi 2.5kw aircon ($2000 supply and installed). Model is MSZ-AP25-80VGKD2 and has a good wifi app. I set it to run at 16 degrees for around 7 hours a day (30min intervals). Air temp stays between 14-16 degrees, so the liquid temp id assume is pretty much the same temp always. Temperature is tracked by a Govee sensor which has an app to track temp over time. Saw advice on this to just use a standard aircon and working well so far. Purpose built wine air cons are pricey, around 7k just for the unit(not install) which i couldn't justify.

Black steel racks x 3 = about 600 bottle capacity ($300 bargain buy on fb mkt place, brand new would be around $2.4k for 3x). Wines are stored per variety. Space for box storage on top as well. I was too lazy to track via cellar tracker.

Black cube shelves x3 (21 wood cube slots , about $300 total, for about 300 bottle capacity) bought from vidaalxl. Glad I got these shelves rather than all mesh racking to store boxes and also isolating bottles from producers i buy alot of.

Wine display racks from temu, around $120 for all of them.

Led cob strip from Ali express around $150. Is controlled by an app, also can go crazy colours and patterns which the kids like to play with sometimes. Very simple to install with adhesive backing.

Hope this is useful to some, happy to answer any qs. Cheers

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I need more wine racks and find them so expensive so checking Temu now - thanks

 

[XavierP]

Hi All, thought i share my home wine cellar setup which ive just completed as I hope some might find it as a useful reference. (Roughly $12k all up costs)

My house was a new build and I added a wall to the standard floorplan to form the room.

Insulation ($4700 through builder): r2.5 batts in the walls/r4 in ceiling + 60mm kooltherm k17 plaster boards on all walls

Steel frame door with double glaze+low e glass ($4000 supply and installed). Note this is for aesthetics, not great for temp control (was gonna get a upvc door but wife overuled) but ive sealed the gaps with rubber/foam door seals.

Mitsubishi 2.5kw aircon ($2000 supply and installed). Model is MSZ-AP25-80VGKD2 and has a good wifi app. I set it to run at 16 degrees for around 7 hours a day (30min intervals). Air temp stays between 14-16 degrees, so the liquid temp id assume is pretty much the same temp always. Temperature is tracked by a Govee sensor which has an app to track temp over time. Saw advice on this to just use a standard aircon and working well so far. Purpose built wine air cons are pricey, around 7k just for the unit(not install) which i couldn't justify.

Black steel racks x 3 = about 600 bottle capacity ($300 bargain buy on fb mkt place, brand new would be around $2.4k for 3x). Wines are stored per variety. Space for box storage on top as well. I was too lazy to track via cellar tracker.

Black cube shelves x3 (21 wood cube slots , about $300 total, for about 300 bottle capacity) bought from vidaalxl. Glad I got these shelves rather than all mesh racking to store boxes and also isolating bottles from producers i buy alot of.

Wine display racks from temu, around $120 for all of them.

Led cob strip from Ali express around $150. Is controlled by an app, also can go crazy colours and patterns which the kids like to play with sometimes. Very simple to install with adhesive backing.

Hope this is useful to some, happy to answer any qs. Cheers

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Wow!! Just wow! You DO LOVE your wine hey!

 

[gazzab]

I need more wine racks and find them so expensive so checking Temu now - thanks

I did some racks thru Sydney which were reasonbly priced, galvanised steel, if you need info let me know. G