Wine Coolers

The purpose of a wine cooler is to be able to instantly chill a wine bottle to the proper serving temperature within a matter of minutes. As any wine enthusiast would be aware, there are three types of wines: white wine, red wine, and rose wine. Dry wines are known to be bitter, while fruity wines taste sweet. White wines can be either dry or sweet, but red and rose wines are mostly sweet. Although there are a wide variety of wine coolers available on the market today, the most popular ones including freestanding, built in, counter top, and tower models.

Freestanding wine coolers are self-contained stand alone wine fridges. Built-in units can also be converted into freestanding. These built in wine coolers can be installed beneath a bar or kitchen countertop or within the framework of your cabinetry. Most countertop models are designed to fit either underneath or on top of a counter. These coolers can store approximately 4 to 24 wine bottles.

Tower wine coolers are designed to be tall, resembling a tower. A favorite among these coolers is the Haier Thermal Electric 18 bottle wine cooler. This model is designed with 9 shelves and can store 2 bottles per shelf, making it ideal to keep in your home bar. 15" wine coolers are great for tight spaces. They are narrow and fit in approximately the space of a trash compactor. These coolers have the capacity to store 25 to 35 bottles each.

To preserve wine properly, maintaining consistent temperature and humidity is very important. Ideal basic temperature ranges for storing the three different types of wine are:

Between 55 to 60 degrees for red wine

Between 49 to 56 degrees for white wine

Between 53 to 59 degrees for rose wine

There are various brands to choose from each having there own distinguished features and among the most popular are Avanti and U-Line wine coolers.