I got the dimensions for my rack by measuring a commercial redwood rack at a local store. I took a few pictures and made a mock-up of the jig to try to explain things better. I mentioned the ripping issue to the yard guy, and he was more than happy to do all of the milling for me in their heated shop. I happened to go to the lumber yard on one of the most bitterly cold days of the year (and it gets pretty cold here in Michigan). I was hoping to avoid the ton of dust in my shop from ripping all of the horizontal pieces to the proper dimension. I just remembered a funny anecdote from building my second rack. I will do so if it will help you with your project. I can take pictures, but the racks are currently buried under a ton of stuff from one of my other hobbies. The perfect place to uncork a bottle you have been aging for years. The top has two sheets of plate glass over a zillion corks I collected over several decades, all glued in place with the labels showing. It has this type of support for the bottles, with access from two sides. The second rack I made is actually a table. My first rack is about 4' high and 8' long and holds 200 bottles. You should limit the number of bottles in a vertical row to about six without some added horizontal stiffening. You need to be certain that you have the vertical supports spaced properly so that the bottles do not fall through and note that the weight of the bottle resting on the slider supports is also pushing outward, trying to spread the gap. You just need to figure out some way to make a frame to hold all of the uprights in place. Once you have all the pieces cut to size and have built the jig the assembly goes pretty quickly. This is a bit difficult to describe, but I am trying my best. To ensure that the alignment was good, I used a large block of wood placed against one face of the existing horizontal slider and butted the new piece against it. With one face of the verticals fitted with the horizontal pieces, I simply flipped it over and installed pieces on the other face. All I had to do was apply some glue to the ends of the horizontal pieces, line them up with the marks, and shoot (or pound) a brad through them to hold them until the glue dried. I had previously carefully laid out the locations for the horizontal slide pieces and made marks on the two cleats. Two of the uprights were then placed on the inside edges of the cleats and I fashioned some levers that swiveled against them to hold them in place. To assemble the rack I made a jig that was basically a piece of plywood with two parallel cleats screwed in place. I left the ends of my horizontal slide pieces cut at 90 degrees, but I helped a friend build a rack and he cut the front ends at 45 degrees and it looked pretty nice. The uprights were cut to size and then I ripped long strips 3/4" X 3/4" and cut them to length for the slides. Very soft and easy to cut, but it makes a lot of powdery dust. It works very well in the cool, humid environment that is ideal for wine bottles, and it looks really nice. I can give you some of the dimensions, if that would help. I don't have any plans, but I built two racks that use the slide-in style like the main sections of the picture you linked.
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