For those of you who have cellars with individual slots (and who track the location of bottles within the cellar), how do you label the columns/rows or slots so you can find stuff? In my LeCache, I have small transparent labels on the inside of each slot. I like that they are unobtrusive — if you’re not looking for them, you probably won’t even notice them. And they’re (generally) easy enough to read when I need to (kind of hard if the room is dark).
But as I’m planning an actual cellar build, I’m wondering if there are better options. If nothing else, it might be nice to avoid the tedium of putting labels in every single slot. But I don’t want stuff to be too hard to find. Whatever I do, I want it to either be mostly invisible, or look nice.
Any creative solutions?
I use Cellar Tracker and in the bin field I put in the column and row so c5r14 would be a wine in column 5 row 14. With multiple rows same wine such as if I have a case with 2 bottles per row it would look like this: c5r14-19. So when looking for a wine it is easy to just look it up on Cellar Tracker and find location quickly.
I bought metal number tags and letters from Etsy. Every row is lettered, but I only put up every 5th column number because it’s easy enough to count backwards or forwards from the reference column.
These are the letters I used: Vintage Metal Letters 1.5 Alphabet Premax Telephone - Etsy
I don’t remember where I got the number tags, but they were cheap, about an inch across.
Yeah, I do similar; my question is about how you physically label the columns and rows so you can find the location once you’ve looked it up. I’m looking at a cellar holding between 1000 and 1500 bottles, so I think just visually counting/scanning to find them will turn out to be a pain.
Oh nice, I like this. Thanks James!
I have a Dymo label printer. Bins are named column/row. Columns are A-Z and rows are numeric. I printed 2d barcodes on the 1x1 labels with A00, A01, etc. and stick them on the inside of the slots. When wine comes in I use my bar code scanner to scan the bottle (which are labeled with the 1d barcodes on the larger printed Dymo labels) and the slot. It’s two deep so there are 2 bottles per bin. If it’s not the bottle in front it’s obviously in back.
I use CT and letters for columns and numbers for rows. I sort region by column but there’s always some spillover.
For my X bins, I call them XL3, XR4 (x bins, left, 3rd X down, x-right-4th down, respectively)
I think others here have done this but I used a leather punch set to mark my bins. Although I only use an entire column as a bin.
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