Help me order my wine fridge more efficiently

[eyebeebe]

Mods: Not really a food and drink topic, can it stay in The Lounge Please

My wine fridge allegedly holds 196 0.75l bottles over 7 shelves so 28 per shelf. I can only fit 18 in per shelf, so am clearly missing out on a good amount of wine storage.

How should I be stacking them?

Currently 3 rows of 6 per shelf. I know it's not full to the brim at the moment - use the second shelf from the top as an example
I've chopped off the bottom shelf, which isn't as high as the others (currently has 6 bottles of fizz and probably not space for another row). The top shelf is also not as deep as the others, as the compressor is up there.

[gizlaroc]

None look to be reversed?

[Justayellowbadge]

PHest topic ever.

Reversing is the answer, tessellate them.

[Mr Pointy]

I bet if you took the shelves out you could fit 196 bottles. The description is probably technically accurate as long as you don't want the shelves in as well.

[Jasandjules]

Never has a First World Problem Gif/Picture been more suitable.......

[austinsmirk]

Drink some of it and there will be less to store ?

[HootersGsy]

It'll be 196 bordeaux style bottles.

Very difficult to fit that many of other styles, such as champagne, in there.

[groucho]

How comes you haven't drank them and therefore leaving your fridge empty?

[Bill]

Jasandjules said:

Never has a First World Problem Gif/Picture been more suitable.......

Oh noes, I don't have a boot room to put the skis in.

[eyebeebe]

HootersGsy said:

It'll be 196 bordeaux style bottles.

Very difficult to fit that many of other styles, such as champagne, in there.

The top two shelves are Bordeaux. I'm not looking to fill it to capacity, because of the different bottle styles, but feel like I can do better than at the moment.

Mr Pointy said:

I bet if you took the shelves out you could fit 196 bottles. The description is probably technically accurate as long as you don't want the shelves in as well.

That thought had crossed my mind, but not really a practical solution

Justayellowbadge said:

PHest topic ever.

Reversing is the answer, tessellate them.

Just tried that with a shelf of Bordeaux, it would fit another 4 at most and it looked a bit rickety.

austinsmirk said:

Drink some of it and there will be less to store ?

Not much of the red is ready to drink. There's more space at the bottom for white that is being drunk reasonably quickly

groucho said:

How comes you haven't drank them and therefore leaving your fridge empty?

The red is maturing slower than I'm buying more...

Bill said:

Jasandjules said:

Never has a First World Problem Gif/Picture been more suitable.......

Oh noes, I don't have a boot room to put the skis in.

I thought you'd all approve

[Pixel Pusher]

http://www.vintecclub.com.au/tips-for-organising-y...

[bulldog5046]

Definitely sounds like you need to drink 70 bottles of wine to me.

[NRS]

eyebeebe said:

austinsmirk said:

Drink some of it and there will be less to store ?

Not much of the red is ready to drink. There's more space at the bottom for white that is being drunk reasonably quickly

groucho said:

How comes you haven't drank them and therefore leaving your fridge empty?

The red is maturing slower than I'm buying more...

Bill said:

Jasandjules said:

Never has a First World Problem Gif/Picture been more suitable.......

Oh noes, I don't have a boot room to put the skis in.

I thought you'd all approve

What do you mean maturing? I presume you do you it's not maturing any more since it's in a bottle... Or is it some home made stuff?

[austinsmirk]

I find a bottle of red bought from the supermarket needs about 5 mins to mature from its screwcap of cork being removed, before my wife has it in a glass and is drinking it !!!!

Great thread though !!! Surprised we haven't had 10 pages on wine snobbery yet !

[ianrb]

So what exactly is the point of a wine fridge? OK if you live somewhere very warm it can be used to keep the wine stable over extended periods, but where in the UK is there that a cool corner of the house can't be found. Other than that you just want to cool down some whites for an hour or two before you open them?

[eyebeebe]

Pixel Pusher said:

http://www.vintecclub.com.au/tips-for-organising-y...

Thanks

NRS said:

What do you mean maturing? I presume you do you it's not maturing any more since it's in a bottle... Or is it some home made stuff?

Not sure I follow? Rather I said ageing instead of maturing?

[eyebeebe]

ianrb said:

So what exactly is the point of a wine fridge? OK if you live somewhere very warm it can be used to keep the wine stable over extended periods, but where in the UK is there that a cool corner of the house can't be found. Other than that you just want to cool down some whites for an hour or two before you open them?

It keeps them at a constant temperature. I live in Switzerland. We've had 3 months of temperatures in the 30s and the winters are below zero. The cellar, while cooler than the rest of the building, is definitely hotter than the wine should be stored at at the moment.

austinsmirk said:

Great thread though !!! Surprised we haven't had 10 pages on wine snobbery yet !

Yes, I was expecting lots of get the butler to sort it or surely one just buys Pétrus while dining type comments

Edited by eyebeebe on Saturday 12th September 08:41

[NRS]

eyebeebe said:

NRS said:

What do you mean maturing? I presume you do you it's not maturing any more since it's in a bottle... Or is it some home made stuff?

Not sure I follow? Rather I said ageing instead of maturing?

It doesn't change the taste when it's in the bottle - it's not like it becomes the equivalent of a year older once you have bottled it. So it's not maturing (or aging if you mean changing taste). So I'm puzzled by what you mean?

[NRS]

doogz said:

NRS said:

It doesn't change the taste when it's in the bottle - it's not like it becomes the equivalent of a year older once you have bottled it. So it's not maturing (or aging if you mean changing taste). So I'm puzzled by what you mean?

Why is wine always labelled with the year, when spirits are labelled with their age?

With a quick google looks like I was mostly wrong, so apologies to the OP. Seems like red wine should generally improve with age up to a certain point, but some reds and most white wine will generally not improve and will just start going bad after a certain point.

http://www.winetrail.com/agingwine.html