Wine coolers or wine fridges can be freestanding, built-in or integrated. Knowing where you want to put your wine fridge, and how much room you have, will help you choose between them.

Charcoal air filter: this filters the air entering the cooler, preventing odours from affecting the taste of your wine. Air filters can also help reduce the build up of dust inside the wine cooler. It's recommended that they be replaced every 6-12 months. The BW28BL wine cooler offers a solid 28 bottle capacity in a neat and compact cabinet. The extra capacity is thanks to the vibration-free thermoelectric heat pump motor. Internal temperature is consistent throughout the cabinet and super-stable, resulting in a very good red wine conditioning environment. Only better air filtration could improve conditions further.With the thermostat set mid-way on the dial, the average temperature crept up to around 15ºC. Again, the entire cabinet was a uniform temperature and the variation was minimal. For your medium-bodied reds, such as Merlot and Chianti, that’s ideal. If the the Baumatic wine fridge thermostat is working correctly it's responsible for making the condenser, evaporator, fan and compressor work - so it's super important! Theoretically, the interior of the cabinet is illuminated by a switchable on/off LED light. However, the one tiny, old-tech dome LED in the top right of the compartment has all the illuminating power of a candle. A small birthday cake candle at that. This is a picture of the BW28BL in the dark with the door open…

The main difference between a wine cooler and a wine fridge comes down to how long they are designed to store wine for. Wine coolers or wine fridges If you're looking to invest it's worth noting that the more you spend, the more features you are likely to get. For example, some wine coolers will come with dual or triple temperature zones so that red, whites and champagne varieties can all be stored at their unique serving temperatures (7-11°C for whites, 12-19°C for reds).If you do opt for a freestanding model, you should keep it where the ambient temperature doesn't fluctuate too much – so not in the garage. Basically, the same considerations you would apply to positioning a standard refrigerator also apply to a wine cooler. Built-in wine coolers

Is the main display showing any error codes and lighting up? If it's operating as normal it's likely there isn't an issue with the power supply of the wine cooler - usually a power supply issue is a clear one to identify and rule in or out. Yet the motor is far from efficient at a B energy rating, and doesn’t allow the cabinet to get any cooler than 12ºC. That’s fine for red wines, but way too warm for our white wine tastes. The thermostat also allows you to control and adjust the temperature of the wine cooler so if the reading on thermostat is inaccurate (or flat out wrong) the wine cooler temperature will likely be inaccurate too. Thermoelectric heat pumps are virtually silent since there are no moving parts. Heat is simply transferred from the inside of the cabinet to the outside of the thermoelectric plate. That, in turn, becomes hot so needs to be cooled with a fan, which makes a noise. There’s also an internal fan to circulate air, which makes noise too. Close the door and the LED is all but invisible. However, being beside the control panel it shines right at you, making it difficult to see the thermostat knob. Thankfully, the LED can be switched off as it does nothing for showing off your wine through the smoked glass.

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Possibly, but not for too long. Wine is a fragile, sensitive drink that can be severely impaired by exposure to the wrong conditions, and the temperature in a standard fridge is far too cold for storing white wines for very long. Plus, not only is the temperature inside a refrigerator too cold for wine storage, it's also way below the ideal serving temperature. So even if you do keep a bottle of white in the fridge ready for immediate consumption, you'd do best to take it out a little bit before serving to give it time to warm up properly. If you're seriously pondering this question, then the chances are you have enough interest in wine to make buying a wine cooler a sound investment. Here's the 7 reasons your Baumatic wine fridge is not cooling and how to fix it: 1. There's a problem with the Power Supply (And The Fix) Those figures tie up well with the energy label’s claimed 182kWh per annum. To put that into perspective, we’ve tested fridge freezers that use that sort of electricity over a year. So for the BW28BL’s compact 65-litre storage capacity and woeful high-lowest temperature, that’s seriously poor. So much for heat pump technology then. At its lowest setting the cabinet rose to around 18ºC. This is almost the same temperature as the environmental chamber we test in. Ironically, that meant the motor started less frequently, which resulted in a slightly higher fluctuation in the temperature stability. Mind you, we’re only talking +/- 0.5ºC, so still great conditions for your Cabernet Sauvignons and Syrahs.