Wine Cooler
If you typically keep several bottles of wine in your home, say a dozen or so, think about investing in a wine cooler instead of storing them in your fridge or on your counter. A refrigerator is usually too cold, and room temperature is usually too warm for storing wine. Furthermore, these two environments see large temperature fluctuations, which can negatively affect the taste of your wine. Storing your wine in a wine cooler, however, will keep all of your bottles at the ideal storing temperature (55 degrees F).
If you are looking for a decent wine cooler, the NewAir AW-180E Thermoelectric Wine Cooler gets solid customer reviews. Furthermore, it is often featured as a best selling item on popular shopping sites.
Highlights:
One thing that makes this particular wine cooler unique is its compact design, yet high storage capacity. Its dimensions only measure to 20 x 13.5 x 25.2 inches, so it can easily fit into a wide range of tight spaces. At the same time, it has the ability to store 18 bottles of standard sized 750 ml wine bottles. So, you can keep plenty of chilled wine on hand at any given time, say for personal consumption, or for social gatherings. You can even reserve some space to age a couple of bottles.
One other thing that customers like about the NewAir AW-180E is its ease of operation. It has a convenient LED temperature display at the top, so you can quickly find out how cold or warm it is inside. Right next to the display is a touch screen digital control console. If you need to adjust the temperature, all you have to do is press the up or down arrows to raise or lower the temperature accordingly.
What also makes this a stand out wine cooler is its excellent price point of $150. Similar models with the same storage capacity, and for the most part the same core features, cost nearly twice as much, or more.
Other features that you may like:
Thermoelectric Cooling – A type of refrigeration technology that is quieter and makes less vibrations than the compressor refrigeration technology found in your typical fridge, as well as some larger wine coolers. Furthermore, it is more energy efficient.
Chrome Shelving – Provides a contemporary look, but more importantly, it is highly resistant to corrosion and easy to clean.
Internal LED – If you ever want to peak inside your wine cooler without having to open the door and “disturb” your wine, you can press the digital control button found on the touch screen console to turn on the LED and illuminate the contents inside. Since LED lighting does not produce heat, there is no need to worry about causing temperature fluctuations.
Interesting Comments and Things To Know:
This wine cooler might not accommodate your larger sized bottles, as many customers have said that the wine racks will only fit standard 750 ml bottles. However, some customers were able to accommodate larger bottles by removing a rack or two.
The lowest temperature setting is 50 degrees F. The highest temperature setting is 80 degrees F. Some customers have said that their units can experience fluctuations of 4-5 degrees in warmer weather. When storing or aging wine, set this unit to its absolute lowest temperature, as the ideal wine storage temperature is 55 degrees. We prefer to chill whites at 45 degrees F when serving. So, this unit is better equipped to chill rose and red wines to their ideal serving temperatures (55 – 65 degrees F). To minimize temperature fluctuations, it is ideal to place this wine cooler in a cool, dark, well ventilated location within your home.
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