- Sturdy wine rack made of solid hardwood
- Securely cradles up to 12 standard bottles of wine
- Assembles like tinker toys; no glue required; wipes clean
- Extra joining pins included for adding on additional racks
- Measures approximately 9 by 15 by 15 inches; 5-year limited warranty
Product Description
Introduced over 25 years ago, our geometrically proportioned wine racks have sold in the millions. They'll fit into virtually any space ¿ and are infinitely expandable. Each wine rack kit comes packed with enough extra joining pins to allow you to add on another rack in the future and another... and another... as your wine collection grows. Precisely constructed of solid hardwood and put together like tinker toys, the pins seat so snugly into the octagonal beams that no glue is needed for assembly. Each bottle is securely cradled, even in earthquake country. Three finish options allow you to select a casual or more elegant look. Available in unfinished hardwood beams and pins (N); lacquered oak beams and pins (OK ¿ pictured in circle); or Penguin - lacquered oak beams with black pins (PG). Specify choice N, OK, PG
J.K. Adams MWR-B12-N Hardwood 12-Bottle Wine Rack, Natural
Tags: Adams, J.K., wine
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I originally ordered this wine rack a year ago and it has worked out very well for me, despite the initial 4 hour assembly. I recently purchased the same model, and after another lengthy assembly realized that the company did not supply enough pegs to connect my first wine rack to the new one. I called the company and they are sending 4 replacement pegs, but c’mon…why not just put them in the box in the first place? The wine rack itself gets 4 stars because it is sturdy, but the inconvenience of having to step over boxes of wine on my kitchen floor for a week drops it down to 3 stars. You might want to have this in mind before ordering your second wine rack from this company. Annoying.
I have no quibbles with the quality of the construction, how it’s assembled or the price, or anything except what size bottles it will hold.
There are several sizes of wine bottles. The size that I need to store are the larger bottles – champagne, Martini & Rossi, etc. – not the very big bottles but the bottles that are about 1/2″ too big to fit. So I found it useless, and if you have of that size bottle – DON’T BUY THIS RACK! I wrote the company and told them if their dowels were all 1/2″ longer then this might work, and then I tried to take it apart so I could make longer dowels and found that you end up breaking the dowels off to get them out so if I do use longer dowels, I’m going to have to redrill the holes into which I had already put the dowels. Not worth the aggravation.
Some assembly required. As in, the whole thing. If you live in tight quarters, make sure your neighbors won’t mind you banging on wooden rods to assemble it. Some of the pegs were inconsistent in length (either that or the holes aren’t all drilled to the same depth).
The good news is that the design is extremely modular and extensible. You are not, by any means, required to assemble it in a 3×3 configuration. Incidentally, I believe calling this a 12-bottle rack is creative marketing. Note that the 4th row of 3 bottles sits on top of the rack, not inside one of the pigeon holes.
For the price, this is a reasonable, extensible, flexible solution for racking wine. If you’re looking for cheap, like I was, then this is probably a reasonable bet. If you want something fancy or better put-together, then I would suggest looking elsewhere.
This is a nifty wine rack and quite sturdy. I do, however, think it’s important for the prospective purchaser to understand that each of those pieces you see in the photo of the completed rack comes separate and needs to be pounded — quite authoritatively — into place. It takes awhile. And if you don’t apply equal pounding to all the different points of pound, it’s likely to turn out a little whopperjawed. It’s certainly simple, but somewhere in the midst of the process I thought rather longingly of the ones that said they needed “minor” assembly. Or even one that might need none.
And, I’m sorry, glue?
Fits exactly where I planned to put it with a few left over pieces. Being it is just hardwood, may put a coat of something for easier cleaning.
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