Vintec ESPACE Series, User Manual

User Manual   

Espace Walk-in Cellar

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Loading and storing your wine

Different types of shelving  

available for your Espace cellar

Wooden standard shelf

Model #:  TAS19WA

Wooden Champagne shelf

Model #:  TAS22WA

Wooden Magnum shelf

Model #:  TAS23WA

NOTE: Champagne and Magnum shelves are not fitted 

with a shelf lock.

Layout advice

Your Espace wine cellar has been designed to safely hold  

a maximum number of bottles. We recommend that  

you observe the following suggestions to optimise loading.

NOTE: Bottles must be arranged so that they do not 

come into contact with the walls of the cellar. If this 

happens, the condensation created on the wall may 

trickle onto the shelves and damage the bottle labels.  

In addition, contact with the cold wall may create a  

frost point, which is harmful to your wine.

•  Distribute your bottles as uniformly as possible over  

the entire cellar rather than placing bottles all on the  

top, bottom, front or back shelves. 

•  If you need to stack bottles for long term cellaring, it is 

best to use the shelf lock for safety and avoid sliding out 

those stacked shelves. The lock is located at the back  

left corner of each standard shelf (see below).

Runner

Lock

Unlock

Shelf

•  For regular serving access to bottles that have matured 

and are ready to drink, it is recommended to use single 

layers of bottles on a sliding shelf, or lock a shelf and  

use the following vertical stacking system:

Lay bottles from the same case 

together in vertical stacks for easy 

access to each case from the top layer. 

Shelf top view

Shelf front view

•  When accessing your wines, never pull out more than  

one sliding shelf at a time.

•  If you are top-and-tail stacking super-premium Bordeaux 

bottles (extra tall), depth can be an issue. Make a flat base 

layer of standard Bordeaux bottles on the locked shelf 

first, then you can stack your super-premiums on top of 

that base with their tails hanging over the edge of the 

shelf slightly. To avoid bumping into these bottles as you 

move down the aisle of the cellar, it is best to use shelves 

at the back of the cellar for this purpose.