Organizing Your Cellar

[Kcwhippet]

There are a few software programs out there designed to help you manage your cellar. However, I chose to create a simple Microsoft Access database to do the same thing and it costs me nothing since Access came with the OS. Even an Excel spreadsheet can help you manage. Regardless, you really want to know how to arrange your wine in the Vinotemp. I believe it keeps a colder temp on the bottom than the top, so I'd keep the whites down below. Other than that, I think it's really just stuff them in where they fit, as long as you have something to tell you what wine is in which slot. You can try all sorts of ways to arrange by the way, as you have below, but what do you do if you have only one space available and that's in Australia Shiraz and you want to put in a bottle of CA Pinot Noir. Personally, I only try to keep things somewhat sorted by varietal, but for no particular reason, other than it seemed like the thing to do at the time, because I have that Access database. I even have some reds in among the whites. Oh, BTW, I have a rack that's two bottles deep and holds about 350 bottles. I also have some in wooden cases on the floor of the cellar, and two smaller auxiliary racks off to the side that hold another 250 or so. Of course, it's nowhere the Weener's cellar, but that's another story.

[This message has been edited by Kcwhippet (edited 09-29-2005).]