wine cellar/refridgerator

[bigredwines]

CG, about 4 months ago I purchased a vino temp cabinet(redwood racks) that is suppose to hold up to 600 bottles. many of the bottles i have are long so the result is a little over 400 because you can not double stack.I purchased mine used thru my local bottle shop.Just thru conversation I let them know what I was looking for and they found it. turned out I paid 1200 for it .it is a very nice furniture quality box. turned out that the cooling unit had a freon leak.The previous owner of the unit and the bottle shop owner and myself struck a deal and I paid another 200 and I was shipped a brand new cooling unit from wine mate industries. I AM VERY HAPPY WITH MY STORAGE CABINET. It maintains temp @ 53-55 degrees and humidity is 45-55. I wish I could get the humidity up to 60% but living in the desert I don't think it is gonna happen.I said all this to really say I think your best place to find A DEAL on a unit is your local wine store.Another idea that you might want to consider is when you buy a larger unit keep your smaller one for staging what you are going to drink in the next few weeks. This eliminates opening your larger unit to often.Good luck remember it is better to have to much space than not enough when it comes to wine