Wine Guardian Refrigeration – Commercial Display Wine Cellars – Coto de Caza Golf & Racquet Club CA – A Processed Video Transcription

 

Wine Guardian Refrigeration – Commercial Display Wine Cellars – Coto de Caza Golf & Racquet Club CA .

Hi and thank you for visiting Coastal Custom Wine Cellars.  I’m going to share a project with you today that we recently completed in Orange County, California.

In November 2013, I was contacted by an architectural firm in San Diego and they sent me this beautiful color rendering of the proposed remodel to the dining room area of the Coto de Caza Golf and Racquet Club.

The focus of our work was to be the enclosure here.  This is approximately 11′ wide, 2′ deep and about 9′ tall.  It was an area that the club members would have the opportunity to store and display some of their private collections.  So after a number of consultations and a couple of site visits, we created some design work for them.

The wine racks were provided by Vintage View out of Denver, Colorado, and the wine cellar cooling unit was provided by Wine Guardian out of New York.

Let’s take a look at how we came about designing this and we are going to show you some photographs as well.  What we are looking at here is the wine rack design.  This is an overhead view of the area.  It is a foot print, if you will, bird’s eye view.  And as you can see the dimensions are posted, this is approximately 11′ wide, 2′ deep.

This is the back side or fixed glass panels, so that all the club members on this side of the enclosure have a view of the wine cellar.  This is the front side where there is a series of doors, three pairs to be exact.

The capacity of this particular wine enclosure is 1, 380 bottles.  This is a front elevation.  It is mostly label forward horizontal displays in a three deep configuration.  In other words, behind the visible bottle, there are two more bottles stored to increase the capacity.

We also have a presentation row running the width of that.  The back side is the fixed glass panel view and this is a side view illustration as well.

This single deep storage on the side of the vertical frame is for the rear or fixed panel, and on the front side we have a three deep configuration.  This is where the series of doors are located.

Let’s take a look at how the cooling unit came to be.  This is the rough frame construction of the wine enclosure.  This is the cold air supply, and the cold air return.

The beautiful thing about the Wine Guardian ducted air handler systems is there’s no visible equipment in the wine room, and in this case that’s ideal because it’s all glass.  Also, there’s no evaporator mounted on the wall occupying valuable wall space when in deep capacity could certainly be an issue.

Typically, these things are installed about 25 feet away from the enclosure.  As you can see, just on the other side of the enclosure is the cold air supply that I mentioned.

Here is where the wine cellar cooling unit is actually placed in the ceiling and the cold air is supplied to and from the enclosure, and the hot air and the drain line heads out this way to the outdoors.  It’s mounted in the ceiling as you can see.

This is one of their larger units.  Their model DO88 is placed in the ceiling.  It requires a little bit of clearance around it, so that the ducting can be mounted into the various panels available.

Now let’s take a look at some of the wine racks.  The finish on the wine racks is a platinum finish, brush nickel or kind of a stainless steel effect.  As you can see, here is the cold air supply that we’ve been talking about.

Here’s the presentation row that was included on the wine racks.  This is the back side or the rear fixed panel of the enclosure which will go along here.

Now we’ve installed the glass, it’s a 1/2″ tempered glass.  The doors are quite tall and quite heavy, so we used commercial duty pivot hinges that are self-closing.

We certainly didn’t want the wine cellar door to swing in being so heavy and causing damage to some of the wines.  Also, there are lots of these at the bottom for security reasons.  The enclosure now has some bottles stored inside.

These last few pictures will give you some different angles or the many different views that are available to the customers.  It’s almost as if they’re floating inside the enclosure.  It’s amazing.  All in all, a fun project to work with, and we’d certainly like to help you design with your project if you have one.

You can reach out to us via our website:  www.winecellarsbycoastal.com or call me at 949-355-4376.  Cheers!