Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The Ferrari of wine cellars

When a bottle of wine costs more than what many people make in a week, a cheap wire rack just won’t do.
Revel Custom Wine Cellars provides high-end collectors a new spin on displaying and storing prized wine collections. Uninspired by traditional diamond bins and standard cork out storage racks, owner, James Cash designed a system that makes the wine the star not the rack.
Revel’s design uses dowel-bottom sliding drawers and carousels, which creates airflow between bottles and reduces wood consumption. It also provides improved bottle visibility and ease of access. All shelves higher than eye level can be stocked with labels facing downward, allowing them to be seen from below.
Similar to kitchen cabinetry, the design uses base units and upper units. Each unit contains a series of sliding drawers that holds multiple bottles as opposed to a matrix of stationary, single-bottle cubicles. Revel’s base units can accommodate either individual bottles or boxes, and are 25 inches deep. Upper units can either be hung from the wall or stacked upon the base unit and are available in 17 inches or 25 inches deep.
The Wine Wheel available in a base-unit height or in a floor-to-ceiling model can accommodate up to 18 standard bottles and operates like a Lazy Susan. The Wine Wheel allows collectors working with limited space to make efficient use of corner space that would otherwise be wasted.

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