Wine fridge recomandations

[FeelinAlright]

I'm looking to get a 150 btl plus wine fridge which are expesinve as far as I have found. I don't want to spend good money on something that craps out early. Any recomendations on good brands or advice on which ones to avoid would be greatly appreciated.

[Strawman]

I'd suggest you consider other brands than Vinotemp. I have one Vinotemp and also a Vinotheque. I'm less than enthused with the metal label scraping racking on my Vinotemp. It's fine for storing standard Bordeaux style bottles but it's a pain for storing Burgundy and Pinot. My Vinotheque has universal wood racking and cannot store as many bottles as the Vinotemp, but I can store whatever I need to without ripping the labels to shreds. If you buy a Vinotemp, I'd suggest you forget maximum capacity and buy the larger interior racking.

Both units have worked well, and as Paul stated, I did indeed buy them off of Craigslist. I wasn't in a hurry to buy them because I had offsite storage at the time so I was able to wait for a great deal.

Costco or Costco.com has the best prices I've seen for new units. As for buying a 150 bottle capacity unit, I'd suggest you buy one that holds at least double what you think you need. You will thank me later.

[Bruce in SLO]

We have a Danby Silhouette 75 Bottle Wine Cooler, holds up to 100
in our winery tasting room.
Works great, completely silent and hold temps well. We store only whites at 50* F.
Cost is less than $ 600.

[MEalcentric]

Costco is selling a 55 bottle and 155 bottle vinotemp for incredibly cheap ($590 adn $1300 respectively)

[ChefJune]

$590 is NOT incredibly cheap for a 55 bottle anything, imho. especially since they don't really hold 55 bottles! at least I have never seen one yet that did. All those wine fridges that claim to hold 55 bottles in reality hold about 42.

I paid $350 for my Danby "55 bottle" in 03, and except that it doesn't really hold 55 bottles (well, maybe it would if they were all Riesling!) I have had no complaints with it.

[Paul Weller]

My brother has bought two HUGE vinotemps that hold several cases of standard bottles each. He found his used by searching craigslist and paid about one third of retail. They have both been working for about three years now with no probelms whatsoever.

[vinosnob]

If you live in Los Angeles, drive to the Vinotemp warehouse and but their "scracth and dent" models for CHEAP. I think they list the inventory on Ebay or under the dba westside cellars.

I've purchased two and they both work perfectly and look like new.

[cfisch]

I bought mine from wine enthusiest.com A little louder than viking however a third the price wvwn with shipping

[Yaqo Homo]

I LOVE my Wine Enthusiast fridge from their "Silent" line.

http://www.wineenthusiast.com/templat...

Very inexpensive, and as quiet as advertised.

follow up: After posting this, I realize these are too small to serve your purposes; you may want to look into WE's other lines, though

[ibstatguy]

Eurocave; I've been very pleased with mine