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Hi All, Finally completed a shed last Sept. in the backyard incorporating a cellar of about 12 cubic metres and installed a Fondis 18, walls are 190mm* 40mm, lined internally with fibro, externally fibro/weatherboard, insulated with R3.5 poly and also an aluminium "bubble wrap" (20mm thickness) that...

Darren, The Kitchener continues to work adequately albeit a bit of a struggle; I have the temperature set to 15 centigrade, the top section is maintained at this temperature but humidity seems high as it slightly lifts the label, strangely the bottom section is maintained at about 18 centigrade. I'v...

Pana, Thanks, for your informative posting, which incidentally could not have arrived at a better time as I am presently looking at the next batch of wine purchases. I tend to cherry pick eg 96, 98 and some 99's to date, from what I have read the SA vintage for 2000 was ho hum, the 2001 good and the...

Hi Jamie, The wine cellar was in an enclosed bedroom, inside temperature at times would have been 30+, it is now in the garage where there is better ventilation, and also I have taken a bottle from each rack which will allow for better cold air flow down the sides. The temperature is being taken fro...

I commenced collecting wine about 5 years ago, and found it to be a "disease" more infectious than the common cold. Initially I stored the wines (mainly purchased from Cellarmaster) in a bedroom cupboard, only to find the summer temperatures in the house (even here in paradise - Central Coast NSW) r...

I've been one of those lurkers for sometime, and considered it was time that I tested the water: - Penfolds Kalimna 98 (a favourite quaffing wine and lucky enough to be able to purchase 3 dozen recently for under $18pb), many years of enjoyable BBQ drinking ahead - Seppelt's St Peter 99 thoroughly e...