Funny how you run about a year behind me in choices… 
Bite the bullet, get the offsite, only visit at shipping times.
I use cellar tracker to keep track of what is there. I put all new list wine there, and pull things to take home. I try and only go 3-4 times a year.
With all the list your on, your kidding yourself about any other choice.
i syppose bottle cooler is a nice idea for keeping wine
This is the worst advice ever. If you said Madeira you’d be spot on. Port is still a wine and I can’t tell you how many people have ruined it by letting it get warm during storage. It should be treated exactly the same as any other wine.
What? The Alamo doesn’t have a basement?!
Sigh, today is a major wine milestone for me…I officially leased an offsite locker today.
I have wine in several coolers, racks, wood crates and now I have moved to storing some flat on the concrete basement floor. I find about a 4 degree difference, 62 vs 66 for wine on the floor verses in the open wood racks.
I have recently resorted to storing my overflow in my crawl space which is currently 57 degrees. I will have to keep an eye on it as the summer heat creeps up.
G. Bienstock, you have a problem.
Sigh. I know because I have the same one.
I usually buy 3 or 4 btls of something. If they need long term storage I keep 1 or 2 in my cabinett for the ready and put the other 2 or 3 in storage locker.
Perfect. That will mean you’ll need to plan on what bottles you move out of storage to drink. And there won’t be a night when one of your wife’s drunken, slob friends puts down a bottle of La Tâche.
Congrats Scott, now you have room to load up! I’m in the same boat, currently on second locker and it will probably be filled by Nov.
My buying moratorium is solid for over 2 months and will continue until the fall.
The best (and worst) thing about having offsite now is that I can have stuff sent directly there. Almost too easy!