QOD: THree levels of storage everyday stuff in the kitchen
wine rack. The step up from that in a wood wine storage thingy.
The good stuff is in our basement in foam surrounded by cement.
Dream of a real cellar some day a personal goal!

Safe travels GV.

Enjoy your trip, I too will be away…Thank God for lap tops and wireless internet.
All the best.

QOTD.
1. 24 btl under counter wine cooler
2. 196 btl wine rack in a small wasted space room off the living room
3. 44 bbtl rack in basement (for good stuff) only 13 bottles in that one

I love Fridays. Super show. QOTD: Built a walk-in wine room off the kitchen in lieu of a pantry when we remodeled. Stores about 600 bottles of wine and is pretty impressive with the etched glass door. I thought it would take years to fill up. After eight months, I am bursting at the seams. I may have to resurrect the ole “man cave.” Take a 25 cu ft freezer, adjust the thermostat or purchase a bottle probe and you have an effective cellar which holds 100+ bottles of wine for a fraction of the cost of a wine refridgerator.

Ciao

Super Tuscan Friday! Half of me is happy (french-italian ancestry.)

QOTD: I have a six-bottle wine rack that sits on my kitchen counter (next to the refrigerator!) When I have more than 6 bottles, I keep them in the bottom of my bedroom closet. It’s been fine so far this fall and winter (wine journey began in November 2006) but I know I need to change before summer comes!

Learn some cool stuff at your seminar and have fun!

QOD: I have a cellar in the basement. Finished it about a year ago and am changing from basic steel shelving, which scare me, to individual double deep racks made of Utz cedar. Utz is from south american and when stained looks like mahagony, but much less expensive. I have another set made and will install them in a few weeks. Can wait to organise and hang out down there.

Nice to see a super tuscan….
QOTD – I store my wine in a temp/humidity controled Eurocave in my basement all the while longing for a true cellar. Where is your cellar Gary?

QOD: I have a 100 storage unit that is full. I knew I should have gotten a bigger one

Gary – The scalp thing sounds like it’s probably your ancestral monkey-genes coming through. It happens to me sometimes, too, and I’ll suddenly find myself trying to eat my peas with a sharpened stick. My wife always tries to take the stick away, but I just say “Hey Woman, don’t forget who the Silverback is around here!!” Then I lope off to my wine cellar for a while…

Speaking of wine cellars: QOD – I store my wines in the crawlspace under my house (seriously). Here in the Pacific NW that’s the one part of the house that stays about 55F all year long. And by putting my special wines waaaay in the back, it’s easy to let ’em sit for years at a time.

QOTD: 50 bottles in my wine fridge and the rest in basement.

First off, TGIF! I’m finishing off a bottle of the Reininger Syrah from the Washington State episode is which is drop-dead gorgeous, I mean wonderful. Unfortunately, WL is sold out! 🙁

QOTD: I actually have a designated “wine room” where I display antique corkscrews and other wine-making paraphernalia along with storing my wine. I have a built-in wine rack and cabinet which holds maybe 40-50 bottles, a wine frig for the high-end “keepers” which holds approx 40-50 and then I have those cheapo wooden racks you stack as you go which currently holds close to 130. Of course, I log my wine and keep track of my wine on a friend’s website and started to try cellar-tracker.com which works quite well…

Oh, I almost forgot. I have a stash of “drink now” wines in the island in the kitchen. Everywhere you turn, there’s wine.

Life is good. Stay warm and make every pitch as though it were your last.

Cheers!

QOTD: 35 bottles in wine fridge and 50 bottles on a wine rack in the basement under the stairs.
Great show have a good trip

Gary,
Fun episode. Hope you have a good trip. Can’t wait until the kids are out of the house and I can take a trip to Tuscany.
QOTD: Got so hooked on WLTV that I decided to buy a Eurocave performance 283, so I have a lot there, but that is not enough room to store all the stuff I have bought from WL. Sooooo…. have a lot at room temp, those which I will drink in 6 months or less. And the “cellared” stuff is in the Eurocave. Hope the room temp will be okay for short term. We don’t let it get above 74 or below 68 in the house.

1st? Oh, my bad… overachievers! Just 4 hours late!

63rd?

Top 70!

I keep my wine on a rack under the stairs, but I’m thinking I better get a little wine fridge to brave through the hot LA summer months. It really hurts me to know that I can’t buy anything to last for the long term.

Top 70!

I keep my wine on a rack under the stairs, but I’m thinking I better get a little wine fridge to brave through the hot LA summer months. It really hurts me to know that I can’t buy anything to last for the long term.

Hey JMC #21- There are a lot of Chicago Vayniaks including me. Welcome. Check out the Forum at WLTV meets. There is a thread for a Chicago wine tasting tonight spearheaded by Large Fever Format and others. I have kids’ stuff and can’t go. Join the Forum and chat or leave comments here on the eps. Cheers!

GottaGoDrink

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Nope!

QOD: 24 bottles of white stored in an under the counter wine cooler. 192 bottles of red stored in eight 24 bottle racks in a dark closet at 68 degrees. One bottle open. None of my wines cost more than 70.00 so this works for me. The open bottle is now empty.

In my down stairs closet and my wine fridge. Good show, nice to see you do a Super Tuscan.

I love the Friday episode; the leather couch; the WL wooden crate; Vayniak questions; laid back ambiance, etc. GV, your a pro. You’re really hitting your stride, you ‘athlete’ you. What a stud!

I especially appreciate the historical, and in this episode, the economic background you are providing about the wines you feature on WLTV. I learn much about something I’m passionate about, and I consider viewing your WLTV effort among the highlights of my daily life. I raise my glass, and wish you a safe and fun-filled trip.

Mike W.

I store my wine in my temperature and humidity controlled, vapor barrier sealed, R21+ insulated dedicated wine cellar which has a capacity of approximately 1050 bottles. I have around 400 bottles and it LOOKS pretty full. Have a good trip to the UK!

QoTD – I have a basement (doesn’t cellar sound cooler?) that hovers 55-60 in the winter and 60-70 in the summer. I keep my wines on a couple free standing racks, nothing fancy. Once we redo the basement I want to have a dedicated area in the corner where the temp stays a little more consistent, with some stainless racks (too moist for nice wood).

I store my collection in a small corner room in my basement. Temp. seems constant here at around 65-66. Cool cement/stone floor, and a door to close it off from rest of basement. Good wide range of wines (I do not buy by the case, only 1, 2, or 3 bottles of each wine). No first growth or obscenely priced numbers. So I carry roughly 150-180 names at a time. I like to taste many varieties from all over the world. But I always come back to my beautiful dirty, dusty, smelly, Medocs (love Chateau Lascombes). So my little corner does the trick.
I also like my Tuscans (Lamaione, Mormoreto, Solengo, Tig, Piastraia, Le Serre Nuove). Nice to see GV do a Tuscan today.