Bottle-count sizing · 200 bottles
Wine cellar cooling
for 200 bottles
Bottle count is how people search. Cubic feet, glass, and insulation are how a cabinet is sold. Typical room: About 6 ft by 6 ft by 8 ft, or a 6 ft 4 in by 6 ft 4 in by 10 ft new-home cellar. About 300 to 400 ft3. That is an APEX 3500 class if the envelope is honest.
Starting point
3,353 BTU/h. Up to about 900 ft3. Default for the 200 to 400 bottle new-home package with a glass door.
Written and reviewed by
Panthaire HVAC Engineering Team · Licensed HVAC · Wine Cellar Cooling Specialists
The team that engineers APEX is the same team that ships it and answers the phone when installers call.
Last reviewed · August 27, 2026
What has to be true
- 01Two hundred bottles is the new-home starter cellar and the small hospitality wall.
- 02A 6 ft 4 in cube at 10 ft high is about 400 ft3. APEX 3500 if the envelope is honest.
- 03Glass door about +15%. Treat a wine wall as more than a door.
- 04US jobs are direct-to-consumer. Licensed HVAC installs.
Two hundred bottles is where homeowners, owner-builders, and small wine walls meet. The room is large enough to look like a cellar and small enough that people still try to size it from a bottle catalog. Size the box. A 6 ft by 6 ft by 8 ft room is 288 ft3. The new-home default we use in Pro is 6 ft 4 in by 6 ft 4 in by 10 ft, about 400 ft3. That room holds 200 bottles with room to grow toward 400 if the racking is honest.
APEX 3500 covers about 900 ft3 on an honest envelope. A 400 ft3 glass-door room sits comfortably on 3500. The load that surprises people is the door. Custom metal with clear glass is about +15%. A display wall with a long glass face is not a door. Measure glass area and put it in the BTU calculator. If the wall is mostly glass, you are no longer on a 200-bottle nickname. You are on a glazed room.
Hospitality uses this count for a 200 to 400 bottle wall. Kitchen heat and dining-room noise change the job even when the bottle count matches a house. Put the cabinet in a conditioned back-of-house room. Do not copy a house BTU number onto a pass. Confirm any commercial rule for R-290 in that space. A tasting pass next to a range is a different ambient problem than a basement cellar.
Owner-builders often lock the door before they lock the cooling. Reverse that if you can. The door type changes glass load, the mechanical room changes duct length, and the circuit has to exist before drywall. Dedicated 15A, insulated supply high and return low, sloped drain, 50-77F at the cabinet. Commission to 55F with the glass door closed. The installation guide is the sequence.
Pro has the new-home preset if you are specifying before the door is ordered. That package assumes an honest envelope and a glass door, not a glass house. If your room matches that 6 ft 4 in cube, start there, then confirm with the calculator. If your room is a wine wall in an open kitchen, do not use the house preset. Measure glass and heat.
If you already know L, W, H, skip the nickname and open the calculator. Two hundred bottles is how people search. Cubic feet is how the unit is sold. US fulfillment is DTC. Licensed HVAC installs. There is no public US installer map on these pages.
Recommended starting cabinet
APEX 3500
3,353 BTU/h · about 900 ft3 · 115V / 60Hz dedicated 15A
3,353 BTU/h. Up to about 900 ft3. Default for the 200 to 400 bottle new-home package with a glass door.
Install notes at this scale
Licensed HVAC installs. DIY voids the warranty. The wine cellar cooling installation guide is the sequence. The ducted wine cellar cooling pillar explains the architecture.
- 01Lock the door type before you lock the model.
- 02Cabinet in a conditioned space. Not the garage.
- 0315A dedicated. Sloped condensate.
- 04Licensed HVAC. US fulfillment is DTC.
Other bottle counts
Each page is a different room, not a cloned paragraph. If your count sits between two numbers, open both, then confirm with L, W, H, and glass.
Questions at 200 bottles
Is 200 bottles an APEX 3500 or 5000?
3500 for an honest 300 to 400 ft3 room with a glass door. 5000 if you have a glass wall, a weak envelope, or a hospitality load next to a kitchen.
Does the new-home 6 ft 4 in room fit 200 bottles?
Yes, with standard racking, and you still have room to grow toward 400. Cooling is still 3500 class if the envelope is honest.
Can a restaurant copy a house 200-bottle size?
Not blindly. Kitchen heat, door traffic, and local R-290 rules change the job. Measure the pass and the mechanical room separately.
Confirm the room
Measure L, W, H, and glass next.
The BTU calculator returns the APEX model that fits. Before You Build locks the envelope. Pro is for a specified job.