How do you organize your cellar?

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Regional and then by producer. And obviously all in CT, all barcoded etc.

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Stuff just usually goes in wherever it fits.

But I do usually catalog it into CellarTracker so I can usually find a bottle. Same for offsite. Organization is on computer, not in physical location.

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Index cards.

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Generally by region then variety.

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man, first post in forever. Buying hiatus, so therefore haven’t been looking at the board… intentionally. I have Le Cache and since most of my wines are American, I sort by varietal. About half of my cabinet is pinot, so then I sort by CA and OR.

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Almost forgot…I have a shelf just for your sister. neener

Welcome back to the fold.

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Ha, thanks! The last purchase was Scarecrow, and that was what, March? Strangely enough, I haven’t missed wine buying or wine talk. I’ve probably drank a case of wine since then as well. Anyone else just sometimes take these long breaks?

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Gardening stuff in the back corner, tools near the stairs, laundry next to the window… [oops.gif] Oh wait, wrong cellar.

Organize? My wine cellar? What a concept! I built bins under my staircase. Stuff to age in the back bins, stuff to drink in the front bins. Otherwise it’s a crap shoot.

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Trash bin Tex? [scratch.gif]

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I separate whites from reds. For the reds, I place them by year. All on CellarTracker! I may have to look through a few spaces to find what I am looking for, but it is kinda fun to go through a small area and remind oneself of certain bottles that you forgot you had.

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I organize by points. I put the wines with high points where I can get at them right away! [dance-clap.gif]

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Other than Red/White I am toast.

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Jammed into the 'Scraper slots in no order at all, other than I use the fine work and IT handicraft of Eric Levine to keep track of all of it and I can find any bottle in a snap. But, without CT, I would be as Glenn says, toast.

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I have the bottles in my Eurocave fairly well organized. Not so in my offsite storage where everything is in boxes stacked 4 or 5 high. Good exercise if I have to find something in the bottom or in the back. Everything is logged into CT.

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By bottle shape.

FYI, the Laurent Perrier Grand Siecle bottles suck!

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I used to try and do it by region and then Varietel within the region, but I got too lazy and now it’s just whatever I can fit, where-ever I can fit it.

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I have a wine closet/room and a separate chiller for whites. The whites are more or less by varietal. The wine room is 99% reds, separated by grape, the primary racks have about 450 bottles of red, including Sangiovese, Cab/Bordeaux blends, then Rhones (GSM, Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre), then Pinot, plus a magnum rack mostly filled with champagne and oversized Rhones. The opposite side has the wife racks, 120 bottles under $25 which are loosely organized by grape. The floor has wooden cases stacked up. All in CT, no longer bother with the bar codes though.

Oh, the more valuable bottles are on the bottom rows of the racks as I am somewhat afraid what will happen when the big one hits.

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+1

Though I do have the particular section of chaos where a wine is located entered in Cellartracker.

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Most of my stuff is in storage lockers. If I had a big, at home cellar, I’d organize it by region, then producer, then vintage. But given the offsite lockers (which are very full), it’s completely unorganized, I just try to keep good records (especially as my lockers are in different buildings, adding more space as I’ve expanded).

Cheers,
-Robert

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Varietal/Vintage/then alphabetically by producer… except for Pinot Noir, which is wherever I can find a place to fit it!!! [snort.gif]