Sections of racks, with each row numbered and each column numbered. One difference is that I have a front row and a back row (LRShelves.2R.5 = Lower Right Shelves, second row in the Rear, fifth slot from the left). This makes it easy to also add boxes as they fall into the "mixed stuff" with the box-name becoming the row number (TaylorBox) and then the next available column number is assigned (Mixed.TaylorBox.5 is just somewhere in that box).
This is all very timely, btw, as I JUST installed more shelves last night. And then filled them entirely from the mixed boxes and bins.
As for organization, I try to keep a house together, with the last two decades in the back and the 70's and 80's in the front -- cellar defenders
Most of the 70's, and a few special bottles (even from 00 and 03) have a place in a wine fridge.Cellar fluctuates a bit over the course of the year, I've seen it as high as 62 on a really warm day, and as low as 50 in the middle of an arctic blast. The fridge is more stable. Humidity in both is pretty high, perhaps even too high in the main wooden racks section.
All data is stored in a spreadsheet (which I've improved upon recently). Bottles have tags, but no "ID #s" I was very tempted to put unique id numbers on everything this time around, but resisted. My largest single-bottle stash is the GC80's, of which I have 22 (and 6 more due to TPFers). They came from three batches, so sayeth the labels, and are noted as such in the spreadsheet.
