Racking Systems-The Most Important Decision To Make

While much time is focused on the outside, when it comes to wine cooling systems, it's what's on the inside that counts the most. After deciding on which cooling system is best for your needs , either The QT or WhisperKool^TM determining your racking sytems determines the size of your collection. In this section we focus on cabinet racking systems.

To Stand or Not To Stand Is Not An Option

To prevent your wine from becoming "corked", where the cork dries out and the wine can spoil, it is important to store your wine with the bottle laying on its side. This keeps the cork moist and inhibits oxygen from getting in the bottle to spoil your wine.

Our traditional racking,100% luanne mahagany featured here, is designed to allow for maximium bottle storage capacity. This design allows for all Bordeaux racks with 1 column for Champagne with 150, 320 or 500 series cabinets. Series 550 and 700 allow for 2 columns of Champagne.

Creativity in today's wine packaging has created a variety of designs and sizes to store in your wine cabinet. The Universal Racking System is designed to offer storage for a diverse collection of bottle styles. Our design incorporates one column of splits, one column Magnums, two-to-three columns Champagne and the remaining spaces, Bordeaux. This configuration uses more space which results in an overall lower bottle capacity and much greater flexibility. New trends in bottle sizes are making standard bordeaux bottles wider, requiring more space for sizes that don't fit the standard bordeaux slot.

For easy access to your wine collection, our sliding racks offer both ease of use and display benefits. Each bottle is cradle individually and the whole collection is very accessible with the touch of your hand. Our sliding shelves are made of fine hardwoods and add the look of old world wine collections to your home. Most racking systems use stainless steel for their sliding shelves, which reduces the value of your wine cooling cabinet, when your collection grows. While sliding shelves do reduce the overall bottle capacity by 30% and make an exceptional presentation of your fine taste.

Display racking affords the astute collector the best of both worlds. This elegant display of the wine collection contains a special horizontal row across the cabinet that proudly announces the best of your collection, without the need for visitors to handle each bottle individually. It also provides you with an efficient way to catalog your collection with ease. Which ever cabinet you choose, you can take pride in your collection each time it is viewed with Display racking.

T.L.Marshall, your authorized Vinoteque Master Distributor will discuss with you the variety of options available for you to have your own, in-home personal wine collection. Call today at 818-832-6543 or email More Information with specific questions you may have.