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Built In Wine Cooler – Reviews & Guide 2017





The need for a good wine cooler is often highlighted by a growing wine collection which you’ve probably already spent a lot of money on. Hopefully your specific need for a wine cooler hasn’t been brought on by some of your prized wines in your collection getting spoilt as a result of improper storage.

Our selection of the top-rated built-in wine cooler reviews is aimed at those wine enthusiasts who are a bit more serious about their growing collection. We hope that the information we’ve gathered will go a long way in helping you pick out the best built in wine cooler.

  1. Kalamera 15” Beverage cooler 96 can built-in or Freestanding Single Zone Touch Control with Temperature Memory Function
  2. Single Zone Wine Refrigerator
  3. Allavino 112 Bottle Built-In Three-Zone Wine Cooler Refrigerator Black Glass Doors
  4. Avallon 23 Bottle 15″ Dual Zone Built-In Wine Cooler – Left Hinge
  5. EdgeStar 155 Bottle Double Door Dual Zone Built-In Wine Cooler – Black and Stainless Steel
  6. Koldfront 30 Bottle Built-In Single Zone Wine Cooler – Black
  7. Edgestar 332 Bottle Built-In Side-by-Side Wine Cellar Stainless Steel – Black
  8. AKDY 127 Bottles Single Zone Built-in Compressor Electric Wine Cooler Chiller Refrigerator w/ Tempered Glass Door Touch Control for Adjustable Temperature
  9. EdgeStar 18 Bottle Built-In Wine Cooler – Black/Stainless Steel
  10. Allavino VSWR30-1SSRN – 15″ 32-Bottle Single Zone Wine Refrigerator – Hinge on Right
  11. NewAir AWR-290DB Compact 29 Bottle Compressor Wine Cooler, Black/Stainless Steel
  12. Kalamera 15” Wine Cooler 30 Bottle Built-in or Freestanding with Stainless Steel & Double-Layer Tempered Glass Door and Temperature Memory Function
  13. EdgeStar 6-Inch 7 Bottle Built-In Wine Cooler

What is a Built in Wine Cooler?

Despite what you may already think about built-in wine coolers, they actually save space instead of using up too much of it. As the name suggests, a built-in wine cooler or built-in wine refrigerator is one which was designed and built with the purpose of it being permanently affixed or attached to the surroundings it’s going to be housed in.

To point you in the direction of a more practical example you may be able to relate to, a built-in wine cooler is one you’d likely buy to fill that 15” space left vacant by what used to be your trash compactor. So it’s more of a “permanent” wine cooling solution you’re not likely to move around. One which you’ll have built into a spot you identified as the perfect place to store and perhaps display some wines you might want to regularly access.

Naturally, built-in wine coolers are often compared to freestanding and countertop coolers. In the case of built-in coolers, we’ll use two different types of homes people live in as an example. You have mobile homes, like RVs and you also have permanent, brick-and-mortar homes. As with the permanent brick-and-mortar home, a built in wine cooler would naturally have more features built into it because it’s not designed to be moved around very often.

A built-in wine cooler gives you more power due to its typical use of a compression cooling unit, is more customizable to fit in with the overall style of your interiors, has additional features such as a good security lock, is extensible (can be used to store and refrigerate many other things apart from wine) and can be useful in storing foods that go well with wine, like cheese.

Built-in/under-counter wine coolers are generally very durable and built to last very long.

Benefits of Using a Built in Wine Cooler

Depending on where you buy your wines and according to your personal tastes, preferences, and frequency with which you consume your favorite varieties, any wine collection can be considered to hold significant value.

It’s, therefore, an investment you’d want to protect. For a serious wine enthusiast, one of the major ways through which you’d naturally seek to protect your wine collection is through buying a wine cooler. You’d naturally consider a built-in wine cooler as a little bit more of a “permanent” investment.

While there are indeed a few different types of wine coolers, settling on a built-in wine cooler would suggest that you’re looking for a specific set of benefits usually found only in built-in coolers.

Perhaps you’re aware that built-in coolers are generally designed and built to last for long periods of time, enjoying more durability than freestanding or countertop coolers. Manufacturers are also aware of the type of wine enthusiast who’d consider purchasing a built-in wine cooler and so they’ve largely catered to the specific needs thereof.

What you can expect to get out of a good built-in wine cooler is a very powerful cooling system. Its design typically makes use of compression cooling and places more emphasis on the cooling functionality it delivers as opposed to prioritizing features such as environmental friendliness or silent operation (as would be the case with a thermoelectric cooled wine cooler).

A compressor with a higher BTU rating results in quicker cooling and much more accurate maintenance of the ideal temperatures you’d typically set for your stored wines.

Built-in wine coolers are built for long term use in many ways, including inconspicuous but very crucial features such as integrated humidity control and the ease with which you can customize their outward appearance to blend in with the spaces you tend to keep them in.


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