Wine Shelves, Wooden Wine Racks, Cabinet Wine Shelf Runs and Tobacco Showcases
Two departments that live in one fixture family: wine wants to be seen and reached, tobacco wants to be seen and locked. The build follows from which of the two it is.
Four builds, photographed in our own studio. A wine display cabinet is judged on two things a shelving bay is not: whether a bottle can be taken out without disturbing the ones beside it, and whether the display still looks full when it is half empty. Both are decided by the shelf, not by the cabinet.
A full-height wine wall: lit upper shelves for the bottles on show, and a diamond lattice below holding stock on its side, which is where the reserve lives without leaving the display.
Cabinet wine shelf with lattice base
Open the product fileA black frame carrying timber bottle shelves, with printed header panels above each bay so a region or a grape can be named without a shelf ticket doing all the work.
Gondola run with header signage
Open the product fileA steel run with timber shelves and low crate units on castors at the end, so an offer can be wheeled to the front of the store and wheeled back without dismantling the run.
Steel run with mobile crate ends
Open the product fileA black frame bay with stepped shelves and header panels, built so the back row of bottles clears the front row rather than hiding behind it.
Stepped shelf bay with headers
Open the product fileTobacco display is regulated differently in almost every market we ship to, so the glazing and locking on these builds is specified per order rather than assumed. Tell us the rule you are working to and we build to it. Colour is a RAL or PANTONE reference held across the order.
This category has one real decision in it and it is not about size. A bottle either stands on a shelf or lies in a lattice, and that single choice changes how many bottles fit, how they are restocked, how the display reads and whether it needs locking.
A bottle is heavy, round, and falls over. Everything odd about this category comes from that. Shelves need a lip or a cradle, uprights carry more load per metre than they do in dry goods, and a half-empty wine display looks worse than a half-empty shelf of boxes, which is why the shelf geometry matters more here than anywhere else in the store.
Both builds are made to the wall rather than sold in fixed sizes, so this page gives you the geometry rather than a size table. The sizes come back with your quotation, drawn against the run you have.
There is no millimetre ruler on this page because a wine wall is built to your bay: the useful comparison is how the bottle sits, not how long the run is. What follows is the ladder that actually decides the fixture.
This ladder carries no millimetres on purpose. Both wine builds are made to the wall you have, so the drawing comes after your bay length rather than before it.
Tobacco is the one line in this catalogue where the local regulation writes the specification. Send us the rule you have to meet and the glazing, locking and sight lines are built against it.
The same builds regrouped by what goes in them. Wine and tobacco share a fixture family because both are high-value and both are merchandised at eye level, but what they need from the cabinet is different.
Bottles upright on a lipped shelf, labels facing out. Fastest to shop and fastest to restock, and the only format where a shopper reads the label without picking the bottle up.
Bottles on their side in a diamond lattice. Holds far more per square metre and reads as a cellar rather than as a shelf, at the cost of the label being hidden and restocking being slower.
Glazed and lockable, because in most markets tobacco has to be visible to staff and out of reach of everyone else. What the glazing has to do is set by your local rule, not by us.
Low crate units on castors that live at the end of a wine run and get pushed to the front of the store for an offer. The only part of a wine fixture that is meant to move.
Wine and tobacco share a fixture family and almost nothing else. Liquor store shelving is designed to get a bottle into a shopper's hand as easily as possible. A tobacco display fixture is designed to stop exactly that. Knowing which one a run is for settles the build before any dimension is discussed.
Open
Open shelves and lattice, board over steel
Open on every face, lit from above, with the reserve stock lying in the lattice below the display. A wine shelf is judged on whether one bottle can be lifted out without the two beside it rocking, and that is a shelf lip and a spacing decision rather than a cabinet one.
Glazed
Glazed and lockable, to local rule
Glazed, lockable and worked from the staff side. Tobacco display rules differ in almost every market we ship to, from full visibility to a closed shutter, so this is the one build in the catalogue where we ask you to send the regulation rather than us assuming it.
A great many stores put the two side by side behind the service counter, in one colour and one timber, so the pair reads as a single department. Both are built here, which is why the finishes actually match rather than nearly matching.
The four things a buyer checks when a sample wine bay is finally standing in front of them, quoted from our own build sheet rather than from a brochure.
Lattice
Timber, bottles on their side
The lattice is where the reserve lives. It holds several times what a shelf does per square metre and it never looks empty, because a half-full lattice still reads as a full pattern from across the aisle.
Shelves
Lipped timber over steel
Shelves carry a lip, because a round bottle on a flat board rolls the first time a trolley catches the bay. Load per metre on a wine shelf is far higher than on dry goods, so the shelf sits on a steel frame rather than on pins alone.
Signage
Printed headers, ticket holders
Wine is bought by region, grape and price, none of which is legible from three metres away on a bottle. Header panels name the bay and ticket holders carry the price, and both are fitted before the run ships.
Castors
Castor-mounted crate ends
The crate units at the end of a run are on castors so a promotion can be wheeled to the entrance and back. Everything else in a wine fixture is deliberately heavy and deliberately stationary.
Colour is given as a RAL or PANTONE reference and held across every category on the same order, so the wine run, the shelving beside it and the service counter leave the plant in one shade. The finish standard is set out in full on our About page, and the rest of the store is on the product overview.
Send the length of the wine run and say whether tobacco sits in the same block. If it does, tell us the display rule you have to meet locally.
Every question below is one we would have to ask you anyway. Answering them now takes a round trip out of the quotation.
Seven things buyers ask before they order a wine department. If yours is not here, put it in the message box above and it gets answered with the quotation. For what to send us before a wine wall is drawn, read Specifying a Custom Wine Display Cabinet.
The two wine builds on record, KS-YJG-01 and wineRack-Y01, are both made to the wall rather than sold in fixed sizes, so we do not publish a size table for this category. Wine runs are drawn against the length you have and the bottle count you want to display, and the figures come back with the quotation.
Both, usually in the same fixture. Standing bottles show their label and shop quickly, so they go at eye level. A lattice holds several times more per square metre and still looks full when it is half empty, so it goes below the display as the reserve. A wine wall that does only one of the two is either hard to read or hard to keep stocked.
Yes, and this is the one category where we ask for your regulation before quoting. Tobacco display rules differ in almost every market we ship to, from full visibility behind glass to a closed shutter that only opens for staff. Tell us the rule you are working to and the glazing and locking are built to meet it.
Yes. Wine is the category customers most often send a drawing for, because a wine wall is usually a feature rather than a fixture. Lattice pattern, bay width, lighting and header panels are all drawn to your plan. A CAD file, a dimensioned sketch or a photograph of a shop you like is enough to start.
Load per metre. A metre of standing bottles weighs several times what a metre of packaged dry goods weighs, and unlike a box a bottle concentrates that weight on a small footprint. Shelves sit on a steel frame rather than on pins alone, and every shelf carries a lip so a round bottle cannot roll off when the bay is knocked.
A wine display rack presents the bottle label out, on angled shelves or in individual cells. Wine shelving stores it — usually in a diamond lattice, lying down, which is correct for anything corked and far denser. A real wine wall uses both, and this page shows them stacked in the order a shopper reads them.
