Individual Layers Modular Wine Racks

As advertised!

Bought the Timber wine rack to fit in an alcove in my basement under the fireplace. The fit was perfect, and I have loaded it up with reds and whites that need to be cool but not necessarily kept in a wine fridge for long-term aging. I ordered mine unassembled, and I was careful when I did assemble it. This wine rack is best assembled on a hard surface like a basement floor. They provide an extra piece of wood (square dowel rod), which was beneficial, as one of the other ones in the kit was not cross cut at one end (necessary for assembly) -the extra piece made it a non-issue. The trickiest part is assembling the second set of metal strips (dowels already attached to metal strips at the bottom, and now the second set needs attaching). I appreciate that they sent two extra metal strips in case I made a mistake and bent one out of shape. Didn’t need it, because I went nice and slow, and I gently used the mallet to tap them in place, going over the structure in cycles to slowly tap them in place. Once assembled, the wine rack was slightly askew, but once I situated it and loaded it with wine, the weight of the bottles caused everything straightened out. The rack comes with plastic protectors that one can clip onto the metal strips, but I didn’t use these, as I have many Pinots, GSMs and Chardonnays that just exactly fit (but would cause the plastic pieces to pop off above). Don’t think I need them, but I have kept them for potential future use. All told, it took me a couple hours to assemble, and that is just fine by me. In the end I now have a nice, sturdy wine rack that I feel has little risk of ever tipping over. I bought it for the generous spacing and appreciate that it holds my wide-bottom bottles so well. I definitely recommend this wine rack, and I expect it to last for years without fail.

This is a excellent and sturdy wine rack

holds the wine nicely. difficult to assemble.

This is a piece of junk. Comes in a thousand pieces. Took all day to assemble because a rubber mallet does not work, need to use a real hammer to get the pieces together and this damages the wood. Then the company says if its damaged its not returnable. Once assembled hours later realized all the cross bars for one side are missing. No way could I take this thing apart to return. It looks good but it’s not stable. Will have to call company for missing pieces. I am a metalworker so to explain this item is easy to build just takes a really really long time and its hard on your hands in terms of repetitive hard hammering. Do not order if have arthritis like me! Cost should be $100 not close to $300! See second photo. In the back, you can see that there are only 2 vertical cross bars , 7 are missing and not in box. In photos, each line of bottles has separator bar front and back, but not enough bars were sent to complete it.