Wine Cellar Build

[FuzzNFroth]

Back in 2008, my wife and I planted a vineyard, 330 vines, mostly Pinot Noir. A few years later, we built a wine cellar to hold the barrels and finished wine. Here are a few pictures of the build.

[Archee72]

Nice workmanship FnF
Some Badmo’s in storage too

[MooseMan]

Fanatic build FnF, and what a lovely looking location too, whatever part of the world it is, I'm a bit envious!

[harold01]

what a great job you have done, only thing missing is a bed

[FuzzNFroth]

Fanatic build FnF, and what a lovely looking location too, whatever part of the world it is, I'm a bit envious!

I'm in one of the wine growing areas of the Pacific Northwest. There are several wineries near me, closest one is just a mile up the road.

[NZChris]

Very nice build. Congratulations.

[sadie33]

wow, that's great! I like the round enterance.

[jonnys_spirit]

This looks great and I'm considering wine cellar options in the near future.

I did discover that a uhaul storage facility near me has wine lockers that they keep @ 55*F 24/7. A 3' x 3' x 5' locker is just $15/mo and holds about 400 bottles in flatpacks.

Cheers,
jonny

[FuzzNFroth]

It does keep fairly constant temperature. Currently it's 48 and will get up to about 60 during the summer. There's about 1500 bottles in there . No way my wife and I could drink that much wine in our lifetime. We can't sell it so we just give it away to friends. Unfortunately most of our friends are beer drinkers.

I'm considering not making any wine this season and selling off the grapes instead.

[Yummyrum]

Have you considered distilling any of it ?

Nice Celler BTW

[FuzzNFroth]

Yeah, I ran quite a lot in '22. There is 45 gallons of last years Pinot that has not been sulfited that I could run, but I already have enough brandy to last a while. All the wine in bottles has had sulfite added, so they are out.

[The Baker]

Yeah, I ran quite a lot in '22. There is 45 gallons of last years Pinot that has not been sulfited that I could run, but I already have enough brandy to last a while. All the wine in bottles has had sulfite added, so they are out.

I made what seems to me to be nice brandy out of ordinary bottles of wine, with sulfite, that were too old or were rejected.

Geoff

[Oldvine Zin]

Nice cellar build!! It's a drag to have too much wine

Stay safe
OVZ