Excellent. We just got into the hobby ourselves.
We have bottled two batches of red (valpolicella and migliore), and are now fermenting a white (sauvignon blanc).
We picked up some easy to build wine racks from Ikea. One unit can hold 72 bottles (9 X 8, lying on the side). These units connect to other Ikea shelving like modules. Found another decent wine rack at a garage sale.
We are enjoying our wine now, though we are told it will be better in 8 months.
We noticed a few of our first bottles were leaking - I would not use the synthetic corks again. The sawdust corks seem to work much better.
My man Steve at Wine Kits (Varsity) is very helpful. He says some clients don't even bother to bottle - they just go down to the cellar every night and siphon off a carafe from the carboy!
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