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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon HG
Don't know if I'm overthinking it. It's just a fridge after all, right? Lol.
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It really depends how you plan on using it.
Are you looking for more a spot to cellar wines for 3 - 10 years while they age?
Or is it just a place to keep wines in their own designated spot where they are ready to drink when you want?
we have one of these basic koolatron ones. the only difference with ours is 2 bottles per row (not 3) so it's a bit taller and skinnier.
https://www.costco.ca/koolatron-14-i...100657249.html
We use it for both purposes. About half of it is used for rarer wines that we are keeping longer term before we drink them (3-5 years on avg) and the other half are ready to drink when we want.
I like costco wine coolers beccause of their return policy.
I recommend dual temp if you plan on using it for ready-to-drink bottles. If you're cellaring wines, then single temp is ok.
If your house tends to get too warm in the summer, and you are keeping wines long term, a cooler is a good investment to keep the wines from getting too warm and spoiling.
Here's my best advice: is if you have a few wines in mind, take those empty bottles to the store and test to make sure they fit in the cooler wihtout issues. Standard sized bottles are typically fine but not always. For example, one of our favourite australian wines uses these super heavy fatter bottles (like champagne bottles almost). They just barely fit, but it scrapes the labels when we jam them in there.