Organizing Your Cellar

[hotwine]

Organizing by Country -> Varietal works OK. If your Vinotemp has sliding shelves, I recommend placing the bottles on the shelves neck-in, butt-out, so you can easily read the labels as you pull out a shelf. But if the shelves are fixed in position, you might find it preferable to place the bottles on the shelves butt-in, neck out. The capsules will give you a clue as to what's on a particular shelf, but otherwise you'll be reading the labels upside down.

I tried using paper nameplates cut from 3"X5" cards along the bottom rims of the sliding shelves in my EuroCave, but that idea only lasted about a year.

So long as my stash is less than about 400 btls, I can usually remember where I put a particular bottle, whether in the EC, the cellar or the Haier. It's when there's more than that number to deal with that I start wandering around asking for directions.