Wine "Cellar"

[hotwine]

Kaz, most of the wine cabinets that are available only handle a temperature differential (the temp of unit and that of the room in which it is placed) of 20 degrees. So if you're trying to maintain a cabinet temperature of 57 degrees, with most of these units the room can be no warmer than 77 degrees. That kind of information is usually buried in the fine print of the literature, and can take some digging to unearth. I had planned to buy a walk-in unit to install in the garage to handle at least 1200 bottles, and was willing to spend up to $5K for it; but when I called Wine Enthusiast to place an order, Stephanie, their saleslady, talked me out of it, saying it wouldn't handle the garage temperature of our South Texas summers. So she convinced me that the Eurocave 260 1-Temp was the unit that I needed. Price with the heavy duty cooling unit, extra sliding redwood shelves and shipping was $2800. I've had it for just about a year, and it's working great.<BR>(BTW, the monicker "hotwine" comes from the old storm cellar that I used for wine storage for years.)