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Some of the Best Wine Coolers on The Market

Wine aficionados know the importance of serving wine at the right temperature, from ultra chilled dry wines to letting a more fruity wine run at just a bit below room temperature. The best way to do this is with a specialized refrigeration unit called a wine cooler. (Not to be confused with the sweet alcoholic beverages of the same name in America, and called Alcopops in the UK and Germany). The best wine cooler will support separating bottles and giving each one its own specialized temperature setting.

Read Wine Cooler Reviews before You Buy

While it’s possible to find wine cooler reviews on the internet, there’s a fair bit of terminology to absorb. Like all things dealing with wine, these devices have their own language and vociferous advocates pro and cone. One of the best wine coolers on the market are made by Avanti, which come in several sizes, with the most popular one being a 12 bottle wine cooler.

Avanti Wine Coolers Lead the Industry

Avanti wine coolers are roughly the size of a small refrigerator, like you’d find in an office, and they’re much the same device ? a thermoelectric safe for storing wine. (Indeed, Avanti makes most of the compact “dorm room refrigerators” sold in the UK and US). Their thermoelectric wine cooler gives temperature indicators on each row, allowing you to chill six different kinds of wine to six different temperatures. Additional features include anti-vibration systems, to avoid disturbing bottle sediments, and a security lock. It’s built with solid state components, and has unique, state of the art technology for precise temperature regulation. It’s also got an auto defrost function and very nice interior lighting, all the better for reading labels without disturbing the bottles.

Look Into 12 Bottle Wine Coolers to Start Out

The device is roughly 2 feet high, by a foot and a half deep by 10 inches wide, and weighs a modest 31 lbs. Both the chrome handle and the glass window can be removed for security or for ease of cleaning, and the chrome shelves also slide out ? making it easy to lay in a good stock of wine for a party and settle them in. The entire system is backed by a generous warranty on defects in parts and labor.

Thermoelectric Wine Coolers Maintain the Value of Your Wine Investment

Like most of the things Avanti makes, the wine refrigerator is built around durable construction, and a high value for the price. While its brushed chrome exterior won’t win any fashion awards, or blend into your stone-and-stucco kitchen, it does have a certain “form over function” charm, and fits right in with the industrial-kitchen-look that was all the vogue in remodeling projects in 2005 and early 2006.