Vinotemp VT-18TEDS Thermo-Electric Digital 18-Bottle Wine Chiller, Black and Stainless

Adequate, but too small
Pros: Looks nice, easy interface, temperature control is pretty quick. The other review is right, the packaging is very good.

Cons: The big con is that this unit will NOT fit all 750ml bottles adequately. I bought a long-necked bottle of Riesling...it's an inch too long to fit! I had to lay it diagonally across the bottom tray, taking up 3 spaces. I bought a wide 750ml bottle of Pinot, and a bottle of port..they're too wide to fit the middle racks. I have to stick them in the top rack. Ok, I understand it's not meant to hold 18 port bottles but you'd figure that the rest of the wider red bottles should fit. But no. Even some other moderately-wide 750ml bottles seem to have trouble fitting into the middle racks.

If the unit was just a little a couple inches taller and deeper to accommodate more 750ml bottle shapes, it would be a great device. As is, expect to fit about ~15 bottles, and have some squeezing/rearranging issues.

Vinotemp VT-18TEDS
I've had this unit for about 3 weeks and it's running quite well. It arrived quickly and undamaged. Packing could have been better but since it arrived OK, no problem. It fits 18 normal wine bottles (750ml). It's quite quiet (certainly less noisy than the Cusinart I had). Temperature is adjustable and accurate. Obviously it allows for one temperature, so if you like your white wines chilled you'll probably have to move it to the fridge and hour before you open the bottle.
Overall I'm very happy with this unit. We called a wine store for a recommendation and this is the manufacturer he recommended.

Looks good, runs fine...for 9 months.
Purchased this wine cooler in November '10, stopped working in July '11. When i first began using it, it took awhile to get down the to proper temperature - something like 3 days. But once it did, it was fine. However, when summer came along the unit couldn't get the temp below 65 degrees, sometimes struggling at 68-69 degrees. After about a week in the high sixties, the temp shot up to 80 degrees, even though the temperature of the room was in the mid 70s. Warranty is 90 days, so I now have to purchase a replacement cooling system for $50 - i hope the service instructions are good.

Poor quality, I would look elsewhere.

They sent the wrong cooling system first, then when the correct unit came, it did not work. This whole experience from the product to the service has been a joke.

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Sunpentown WC-12 ThermoElectric 12-Bottle Wine Cooler

DON'T BOTHER
This is a piece of junk. It can barely keep wine cool in the winter with the heat off. The fan runs all the time no matter what. Furthermore, when the room temperature is a tad bit above 70 degrees, the light starts flashing along with a constant beeping. The only way to stop this, is to unplug it.

The manufacturer offers no suggestion other than saying it's probably the pc. In my mind "pc" is personal computer, not microprocessor which is probably what is controlling the light flashing and beeping. The manufacturer offers no method of getting a unit which is properly working, even though they shipped the original flashing and beeping unit. They consider it yours because you, well, opened their box. This is the kind of treatment that gives a bad name to internet shopping.

another dead wine cooler
It worked well for a while.
Sure it took a couple days to truly cool stuff, but then it totally died days after the warranty.
Zero. Nothing. Nada.
I'm very sad it was a wedding present with best intentions, and we enjoyed it immensely.
Now this "thing" is in a Florida landfill.

Consider a real refrigerator if you really care about wine temperature.
Refridgerators cost more to operate, but failure is rare, even at the low-end. Add up your costs and you will conclude as I have that this technology is unreliable. Search the internet and you will discover many like me.
Say no.

So sad...

width & depth dimensions are reversed
I had to return it because it was very deep and very skinny, just the opposite of how the specifications list its dimensions. It would not fit in the space where I'd intended to put it.

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NewAir 32 Bottle Dual Zone Thermoelectric Wine Cooler

Disappointed
I was very excited about this purchase, but that quickly changed to disappointment.

Pros-
It has a very pleasing appearance

Cons-
Will not accommodate 32 bottles, first 2 out of 3 bottles wouldn't fit
Estimate capacity to be about 20 bottles
Even after 24 hours the temperatures only comes within 3 degrees of the preset
Wooden shelves are not smooth or secure, not what I expected considering the price
Dissipates significant amount of heat
Much noisier than I anticipated. I have it located in a laundry room, but would never want it in a kitchen

I am not sure if I will keep this unit, but it would suggest an alternative





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Silent 16 Bottle Touchscreen Wine Refrigerator

Perfect, but....
I was so excited to get my wine fridge in only 2 days! So unexpected. As soon as I got it, I set it up (not too heavy for me to lift, but I did need some help) and all was perfect! Not a sound to be heard and it looked great! Only one thing puzzled me, when I woke up the next morning, the backlight was on...strange. The buttons are VERY sensitive, so be careful with that. Otherwise, that is something that I can live with. For the price and looks, GREAT DEAL!

Quiet and sleek
We really like our Wine Enthusiast refrigerator since it is quiet and looks nice. It was easy to assemble the shelves and became cool fast. The front of the fridge is really sleek since the display is in line with the fridge front since the display is touch-based. I thought it would be a pain to clean since the fridge front is almost mirror-like, and I thought finger prints would show up each time we opened the fridge but it stays really clean and looks nice in our kitchen.

Works well
For my husbands restaurant. This replaces the one that was already in the restaurant. It works very well for wine.

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NewAir AW-180E Space Saver 18 Bottle Thermoelectric Wine Cooler, Black

Great Wine Cellar!!
This is the second wine cellar I have purchased in the last 3 years and I researched this for a week. The last wine cellar I had was a bust from Oster, a great Black Friday deal but stopped working after 6 months. My experience was that it took several hours to cool down and it was realy picky about the ambient temperature. Just a little dust on the back cover sent the internal temp upward and really, all I wanted was chilled wine!!! After all my research, I kept coming back to this model. This has the "look" I wanted for my kitchen but I had never owned a product by this company. I did read the other reviews regarding the humming sound it makes but in my position my previous wine cellar sounded like a jet taking off each time you opened the door to get out a bottle of wine and it had to kick in to lower the internal temp again.
When I first unpacked the NewAir cellar, my first thought was wow, this is beautiful!! I got it set in it's new home by the wet bar and plugged it in...

Skinny bottles only
I've only had this wine fridge for a short time, so I can't comment on its reliability (our last one which we purchased at Lowes lasted about 6 months). It looks good, is a convenient, compact size and seems to work well. But there's no way you can fit 18 bottles in it unless they're slim - such as the standard Bordeaux and Alsace shapes. The chubbier Burgundy size and anything larger just won't fit. The only way to get them in is to remove every second rack and make sure you lie slim and chubby bottles side by side. Makes it closer to a 10-12 bottle fridge.

Works well... until it doesn't.
I bought this just over a year ago - woke up one morning and it wasn't working - no cool air, no led display. No reset button, no apparent way to fix it, other than trying to replace the circuit board in back of the unit. I called the retailer who I bought it from (through Amazon) and they said since the warranty is up, they would do nothing and recommended calling a local repairman.

Even when it was working, I had the unit set at 59 degrees and it never went lower than 63, even when I had my home's AC turned down the lower 70's.

I guess you get what you pay for - I'll be spending more on my next one, and it won't be a Newair.

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