Hand-crafted access, made to the cellar, not an afterthought leaning in the corner.
Access to a below-ground cellar has to be designed in, not solved with a stepladder. We hand-craft two kinds of timber ladder in our Mornington workshop, made in most timber species and typically matched to the racking the ladder serves.
A sliding ladder on a metal rail that runs the length of the racking, giving easy access to the upper bottles. Rail fittings are customised to your finishes — stainless steel, antique bronze or brass — to match the cellar. Racking ladders can be supplied as part of our wine racking.
For cellars entered from above, a ladder extension that runs on a track and stows below a floor trapdoor. Our pull-up extension section rises and locks into place, so there’s a safe handhold to step onto and off the ladder as you move between the room above and the cellar below. Engineered and built to the geometry of the opening.
Racking ladders
Option to add to our racking supply if the height of the racking warrants a ladder for access.
Pull-up trapdoor ladders
Quoted to the opening. To quote, please provide: the finished-floor-to-finished-floor height (cellar floor to the room above); the trapdoor throat size (length × width × depth); and your timber finish preference and timing.
Materials
Timber, made in most species and typically matched to the racking. Rail fittings in stainless steel, antique bronze or brass.
The rest of the cellar is a conversation for the studio.
Eleven racking systems, designed in-house and built in our Mornington workshop. The system that suits the room and the collection.
Cellar-specific refrigeration, calibrated to the room and the collection. Sized once, right.
The vapour barrier, the thermal envelope, the layer of the cellar that quietly does everything.
Air-tight, insulated, seen or unseen. Where the cellar begins.
