A "wine closet" to build

[Detroitpete]

I'm envious! The floor of my closet is littered with specialty bombers of beers that I'm saving for some future occasion AND 5 gallons of homebrewed Scottish Wee Heavy that I'm aging for a bit before bottling it for the Holidays.
My only advice (and I've never actually had the chance to do this) is that I believe that a STEADY temperature can be just as important as a COOL temp. Best of luck and be sure to post pics of your final results!

AYE! The room is in the basement--I've handled both the temperature range and humidity--I'm a lucky guy. I however have limited funds for this project--so I'll see what I can come up with. I'm thinking of cradenza-like storage for supplies flanked by tower racks or cubes. I'll document the madness with pictures.

[NewEnglander]

Cinder blocks and planks always used to do the job for some basic shelving, if you don't want to go more than one level up.

[Bill aka Mole]

A while back I visited a winery that had made their racks out of 1 x 1s for the framing and about a 3/8 thick by about 2 wide for the actual racks. It appeared that for the backs they had used a standard 3 or 4 inch diameter cut while the front was cut at about 1-1/2 inches diameter. It used the neck of the bottle to prevent the bottle from falling out of the rack. If there is a winery in your area that is currently open for purchasing from, they usually have a very proper wine storage rack for holding the wine in storage. Perhaps you could get the dimensions for diameters and spacing from them and then adjust those to you basement's available area.

Another method I have seen was old wooden soft drink crates lying on their sides with the opening angled towards the back so that the bottles rested on their corks.
The amount of vintage that could be stored in a crate was pretty much determined by the bottles dimensions. Only items needed were the crates and a 2 x 4 on the floor to angle the crates, the boards were merely pushed together and the crates rested one atop the other. The bottles necks were away from the opening and it was actually easy to read the labels. Each crate was a specific vintage.