Wine racking systems
Wine racking systems
Ver mensaje de rayolI have a house in Spain and a small room has been allocated as my bodega. It is quite cool (I hope) but I’m wondering what the most effective storage system is.
It needs to be ultra cheap !!!
Too much cash sunk into the house.
In the UK I have a eurocave type thing and a woodden rack that holds about 30 bottles for immediate consumption.
The house is between Valladolid and Madrid.
Are such sturdy racks available around there.
Also a friend suggested some hollow bricks that could be built up along the back wall...each brick holding a bottle inside. Has anyone tried this ??
thanks
Re: Wine racking systems
Ver mensaje de rayolHi Ray,
I guess that the room as no treatment to isolate of the external temperatures. As you know one of the characteristics of the zone where you have the house is a big termal difference between night and day, so having a good average temperature is an item to bear in mind.
I don’t know the kind of woodden racks you say, but in Spain you can find a huge amount of different kind of woodden racks... from absolutely bargains to extremely expensive, it depends on what kind of rack are you looking for. For example, you can find very cheap woodden racks in the megastore Ikea, but I’m pretty sure that anybody in the village where you’ve the house can tell you where to buy a good woodden rack in the zone.
The solution that tell your friend is very common in Spain and it’s a cheap (well... cheap... not too expensive ;) solution. Anyhow if it’s not an old house I wouldn’t put my bottles touching any wall of my house. In summer, the walls use to be tooooooo warm for the bottles sanity! or well... at least I’d choose the coldest wall of the room ;)
HTH,
Jose
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Ver mensaje de joseJose,
it is an old house with very thick walls.
None of the walls are exterior.
I have had the builder create this room by building a wall to have
a small narrow cellar.
I HOPE this will be cold enough (even in august!)I’ll find out in a few weeks !
The rack I use at the moment is better than the IKEA style it is a wood and metal mix bought here at a wine warehouse called Majestic. It is very sturdy and you can secure the tall models to the wall.
I’ll ask in the village as you suggest.
I was wondering if there was any reason not to use the hollow brick routine ?
thanks for your help.
No problem with the bricks cellar :)
Ver mensaje de rayolIf the walls are thick, as in any old house in Spain, I don’t find any problem with this cheap solution (ehem... What about humidity? ;)))) For example, the sun has been punishing one of the walls of my house from dusk till dawn (Trade Mark, all you know #), well and my house is a penthouse made in the new style, so at this very moment you can boil water on this wall =8-/ (arf, right now I think that almost in any wall of my house you cand do this) So you may guess that if I choose this wall to place the ’bricks solutions’ the wines can be boiled in a week :(((
In the environment you say... I’d take the cheapest :) When you arrive to the village, take a budget of both solutions and et voilá ;)))
Cheers,
Jose
Re: No problem with the bricks cellar :)
Ver mensaje de joseHUMIDITY
don’t talk to me about humidity !!!
there was plenty and we only discovered it after buying the house.
Am assured it is a thing of the past by the builder. He has put plastic in the floor and built new ";cameras"; or cavity walls.
so the humidity in the house is gone (?) so while I would love some in the cellar I want to avoid it in the rest of the house. The wine has to come second. (on this occasion !)
Gasp... so maybe you have too much humidity...
Ver mensaje de rayolHmmm... then forget humidity systems... and let’s think in anti-humidity system ;) Just kidding, but being a bit more serious, keep an eye on the humidity issue in your house, ’cos it use to be a recurrent problem very difficult to fix properly...
Cheers,
Jose
Re: Wine racking systems
Ver mensaje de rayolI guess that the brick system would take much much more space with no real advantages (with thick walls) ... but this is only a feeling, not based in any hard data.
MaJesus
ps.- where exactly is this cellar going to be? :-DDD (just kidding!)
Re: Wine racking systems
Ver mensaje de MaJesusThe location MUST remain secret.
I don’t want to find out that the next Verema encounter
has taken place ther WITHOUT ME !