Mike,
It really depends on what style of storage you're after, doesn't it? ;-)
The latest issue of Wood magazine has plans for a nice wine storage unit (similar in style to a china cabinet or sideboard and hutch). The design it uses for the bottle storage shelves is simply a normal shelf with small strips of wood attached to the shelf (running back-to-front) to keep the bottles in position (i.e. not rolling left-right).
I just finished building my own wine cellar in the basement -- mostly rectangular bins but an area at the top for single bottles. It is nothing more than flat shelves. I tilted each shelf backwards slightly, in the event that a bottle might otherwise decide to roll on the shelf for whatever reason (earthquakes are relatively unlikely here in Calgary). I'm not storing Petrus or anything of the like, and I'd rather put my spare pennies into more and better wines than elaborate storage :-) Besides, one of the bugaboos of building fancier single-bottle storage is that your bottles of special wines that you've purchased or been given may vary widely in size and shape
-- and some of them are bound to just not fit properly in anything more confining than the good old shelf.
If the picture that you provided the link to is what you're desiring, that's fairly straightforward to build. The vertical pieces separating each column of bottles should be pretty stiff (3/4" plywood would be ideal), and then the bottles in each column are simply held in place by strips of wood attached to the vertical sides (running back-to-front). You simply need to make sure that the space between the vertical risers is wide enough to allow your bottles to fit between, and the strips of wood that hold the bottles are thick enough to not allow your narrowest bottle any chance to fall through (and strong enough and attached well enough to the risers that they won't break or fall off). Finally, you want the horizontal shelves to occur often enough (I think that picture had a horizontal shelf for every 5 bottles vertically) otherwise loading up one column of bottles and leaving an adjacent column empty could cause the vertical riser separating the 2 columns to flex, thereby increasing the width of the full column and potentially allowing a bottle or two to fall.
One thing you may want to consider with your bin storage: check the archives of this NG for tidbits on "nesting" -- it will allow you to get a lot more bottles in your storage area. Until I stumbled on the idea, I thought my convenient basement space would only allow me a maximum of about 400 bottles, but the nesting layout gave me more stable storage and a maximum of 600 bottles in the same space.
Cheers, Richard
I am in the process of constructing a wine cellar in my basement and I
> am running into a few problems. I am unable to find any plans that
> show the construction of custom individual bottle wine racks (see > example:
I have found many plans for smaller racks or for "low cost" options
> (PVC pipes, ceramic drain pipes, all plywood construction, etc.). I
> am interested in making my racks from redwood to hold from 800-1000
> bottles. I will be making diamond racks, standard shelf style racks
> and individual bottle racks. I can handle the first 2 on my own but I
> would like to find some plans for the individual bottle racks.
>
> Believe me I have searched (I even read "How and why to build a wine
> cellar") but the only actual plans I have found that come close is a
> show on cellar construction on DIY. I was hoping to find something
> with some detail, measurements, etc (The DIY show has the hosts' rough
> sketches). Does anyone know where these plans can be found? I have
> no problem paying for them (Free plans are great however).
>
> Thanks for your help in advance,
>
> Mike