I do use CT but since I only have about 100 bottles here I figured it would be easier to not use bins. It would be quite a puzzle to label these 
Now that was a fun decorating project. (And yes, that engraving is the title of a Type O Negative song.)
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Haven’t heard a Type O Negative in :::::checks a calendar:::: four decades. Now I feel old.
Love this to death 
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Two immediate things I’m thinking of to improve the visuals of the cellar:
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I love the convenience of the white vinyl-printed tags but it’s out-of-place. Would love to replace them with custom stamped brass tags, like “CAB” “01”, “MISC” “03”, etc. Priced these out on Etsy for a total of around $2k. Painful but I’ve gone this far, right?
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Using 7" silicone rubber bands as earthquake protection (if it isn’t obvious already). You can ONLY find these in packs of rainbow colors. All-black would have a better aesthetic, but that’s not an option. I don’t trust non-silicone bands at all to last years at cellar temps.
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What would be your method for securing the bands?
You could also do wooden tags with wood burning calligraphy. Probably a while lot cheaper and I think it could long look good.
Maybe look into cooking elastics? I have some for oven use and they are all black and very sturdy.
I’m not sure how fancy you need the typesetting to be on the tags but if it were me, I would buy some blanks ($90 on EBay for 125 1"x3" blanks with nail holes) and a letter/number stamp set (wide range of pricing but let’s say $30) and go for it. I kind of like the idea of a hand-stamped look over uniform perfection anyway.
Basically like this:
Amazingly simple and amazingly effective. Stole the idea from others on this board.
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Good idea, the materials are cheap enough I’ll give it a shot.
Excellent!
They’re tight enough to keep the bottles in there I guess?
Yes, if you push the band backwards (or pull both bottles out by hand) it gets tight right around as the necks begin to expand outward on the bottles. For 750s on regular racks a 6.5" or 6" band might be optimal, but for champagne on mag racks you need 7". Thought of buying both sizes but this still works.
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Doesn’t say silicone but direct food contact seems like better than cheap rubber bands…
7.5 …
It really does have to be silicone… it’s a much more expensive material but lasts indefinitely at any reasonable temperature and under stress. Maybe some of the pricier non-silicone bands like the “tactical” ones touted on Amazon might be equivalent, but no reason to take chances.
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Second link is silicone and dimensions may be about right. If not - on one of their other product pages it said a customer asked them about a slightly different size and they decided to make it - so maybe worth reaching out to them, maybe it’s easy for them to produce variations? Especially if you describe the potential market from this forum/thread alone LOL
I have had thoughts about contacting one of the probably Chinese producers of the silicone bands about a bulk production of the color black. Might be cheaper than buying 8x of the rainbow packs than I need and just saving the black ones…
EDIT: I fought my way past Amazon’s stupid chat AI and messaged the seller of the 7" rainbow bands directly, asking them about potential all-black production. Probably won’t amount to anything but can’t hurt.
Hello.
Thinking to built a wine cellar at home, but the only wall I can use is 96” high, 160” wide and 15” deep.
Is it possible with that 15” deep? I would like rows of 3 bottles, but I don’t know if I can fit a cooling system there. It has to be wall mount.
I was thinking something like the picture.
Thanks for the advice
I believe @Rich_Brown has a glass wall. He can probably shed some light on this
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