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Treat your wine right with these perfect wine fridges
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Whether you’re a wannabe sommelier, wine collector, or someone who simply enjoys unwinding with a chilled glass of wine, there are a wide range of wine cooler cabinets you can use in your home. The best wine refrigerators allow you to organize your wine bottles exactly how you want them — and keep them chilled at exactly the right temperature.
Pro Tip: Focus on how many bottles you need it to hold at once, where in your home you plan to place the refrigerated wine cabinet, and what extra features (like adjustable interior lighting, pull out shelving, and an open door alarm) you’re most interested in.
Best wine fridges in 2024
Our in-house team of kitchen and home appliance experts has curated this roundup of the six best refrigerated wine cabinets for your home. We included options able to store and keep anywhere from six to 51 wine bottles properly chilled. So, regardless of your needs, budget and existing decor, you can easily find an option that will fit nicely within your home.
Best wine fridge: Costway 51 bottle, dual-zone wine refrigerator
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Height: 26 inches | Width: 27 inches | Form factor: Freestanding or built-in | Bottle capacity: 51 | Cooling unit type: Dual-zone compressor | Temperature controls: LED display with touchscreen controls | Temperature range: 40 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit
The top shelves of this wine fridge can be set between 40 and 55 degrees Fahrenheit, while the lower shelves can be set to maintain a constant temperature between 55 and 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The wine fridge features a stainless steel frame and a two-layer tempered glass door that offers UV protection and heat insulation.
The reversible door can be set up with hinges on the right or left, and can open 180 degrees. To make the contents easy to view and add ambiance to the room, the fridge has customizable LED lighting.
This wine refrigerator also uses an active charcoal filtration system for air purity and odor-free operation. Meanwhile, the compressor runs quietly, at less than 36 decibels. We like that the fridge can be used as a freestanding unit or be built-in to a cabinet or a counter. The adjustable foot pads help the fridge maintain good balance.
Best compact wine fridge: Koolatron 6 bottle wine cooler
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Height: 14.25 inches | Width: 20 inches | Form factor: Free-standing | Bottle capacity: 6 (with adjustable shelves) | Cooling unit type: Thermoelectric | Temperature controls: Touch controls | Temperature range: 46 to 66 degrees Fahrenheit
This tabletop refrigerated wine cabinet holds up to six bottles. It’s ideal for a small kitchen, RV or condo. It has one door and two adjustable shelves. And it plugs into a standard 120-volt electrical outlet for power.
You get external controls and a digital display that lets you adjust the temperature, plus turn the interior light on or off without opening the door. Soft and energy-efficient LED interior lighting subtly highlights your wine collection without producing excess heat.
The double-paned, mirrored glass door protects your wine from damaging UV rays. The fridge’s thermoelectric technology efficiently cools to between 46 and 66 degrees Fahrenheit, with no vibrations.
Best wine and drink fridge: Insignia dual-zone wine and beverage cooler
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Height: 34 inches | Width: 24 inches | Form factor: Freestanding or built-in | Bottle capacity: 42 (or 21 bottles and 64 cans) | Cooling unit type: Dual zone Compressor | Temperature controls: Electronic | Temperature range: 34 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit
We love the Insignia NS-BC2ZSS1 dual zone wine and beverage cooler’s two glass doors and two independent cooling zones that are continuously monitored using a digital thermostat for each compartment. Thanks to interchangeable wire and wood shelving, the wine fridge can hold up to 42 wine bottles, or 21 wine bottles and 64 12-ounce beverage cans.
Built into the fridge is soft interior lighting, so you can see what’s inside. With a stainless-steel finish and glass doors, this appliance is easy to clean and adds a modern look to any space. It can be used as a freestanding unit or built into a cabinet or counter.
Each compartment can be locked separately to keep your wine collection safe. The fridge’s beverage zone has a temperature range between 34 and 64 degrees Fahrenheit, while the wine zone has an adjustable temperature range between 41 and 64 degrees Fahrenheit. If you leave either door open for more than five minutes, an alarm will automatically sound.
Best stainless steel wine fridge: Samsung 51-bottle wine cooler refrigerator
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Height: 34 1/16 inches | Width: 23 13/16 inches | Form factor: Built-in | Bottle capacity: 51 | Cooling unit type: Compressor, twin cooling system | Temperature controls: Touch controls | Temperature range: 41 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit
For any kitchen that already has stainless steel appliances and room to place a built-in refrigerated wine cabinet into the counter or island, this Samsung model is an elegant and highly functional choice.
You get a 51 bottle capacity and LED lighting, so you can view your wine collection without opening the single glass door. The upper section has its own temperature zone (adjustable between 45 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit) and holds up to 16 bottles. The lower section (adjustable between 50 and 64 degrees Fahrenheit) holds up to 35 additional bottles. The convenient touch controls allow you to select the optimal temperature settings for red, white or sparkling wine.
Inside, the wine cooler offers five sliding shelves, along telescopic rails that prevent the bottles from rattling when a shelf is pulled out for easy access to your chosen bottle. One notable feature is the door alarm that automatically goes off after two minutes if it’s accidentally left open. There’s also a convenient child lock. Plus, the cooler’s single door is reversible.
Best wine fridge for under 24 bottles: Euhomy wine and beverage refrigerator
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Height: 34.3 inches | Width: 23.4 inches | Form factor: Freestanding or built-in | Bottle capacity: 21 bottles and 88 cans | Cooling unit type: Dual zone compressor | Temperature controls: Touch controls | Temperature range: 35 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit
If your preferred drink selection includes an assortment of bottled wines and canned beverages, this Euhomy wine and beverage fridge makes everything easily accessible, thanks to its two door, dual cooling zone design. The fridge holds up to 21 wine bottles and up to 88 cans within what can be configured as a freestanding or under-counter wine fridge.
On the canned-beverage side (which can be adjusted between 25 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit), you get three adjustable wooden shelves. The wine bottle side provides seven adjustable wooden shelves. Its temperature can be set between 41 and 64 degrees Fahrenheit.
Inside, the blue LED lighting provides a pleasing aesthetic, while allowing you to see what’s in the fridge without having to open either door. The unit is equipped with a powerful compressor that works quietly, at a maximum of 40 decibels. At the same time, a high-speed fan achieves a 360 degree wide-area air supply to create evenly-cooled storage. On this model, the doors are not reversible.
Best wine fridge for under 50 bottles: Frigidaire 45 bottle, two-zone wine cooler
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Height: 34 inches | Width: 21.5 inches | Form factor: Freestanding | Bottle capacity: 45 | Cooling unit type: Dual zone compressor | Temperature controls: LED display with touchscreen controls | Temperature range: 46 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit
For a household with a decent, but not huge, wine collection, this Frigidaire refrigerated wine cabinet is a freestanding appliance that can hold up to 45 bottles and make each readily accessible.
The dual zone compressor allows you to maintain two different temperatures within the unit. Each can be set to anywhere between 46 and 64 degrees Fahrenheit. And for ambience and enhanced visibility of the fridge’s contents, you get elegant LED lighting inside the fridge.
The electronic temperature controls are also readily accessible from inside the fridge. The single door is reversible.
Best premium wine fridge: Thermador Professional Series 41 bottle wine refrigerator
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Height: 34 3/8 inches | Width: 23 7/8 inches | Form factor: Built-in | Bottle capacity: 41 | Cooling unit type: Dual zone compressor | Temperature controls: Electronic | Temperature range: 40 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit
A serious wine connoisseur and collector should have a professional-grade wine fridge — and that’s exactly what this premium, stainless steel appliance from Thermador provides. The fridge conveniently and elegantly stores up to 41 of your favorite wines using six pull-out shelves.
We love that the display shelving is constructed of Wenge hardwood dowels with aluminum front caps. They help control wine sediment by cradling bottles of every size for stability. They also provide an elegant presentation. Plus, you can set two different temperatures to store all your wines at the optimum temperature, from chardonnay, to pinot, to rosé. The integrated LED lighting allows you to see what’s inside without opening the door.
The fridge’s single door is constructed with UV resistant tempered glass that helps to protect your most prized wines. The door generates an automatic alert if it’s accidentally not closed all the way. This prevents the under-counter refrigerator from losing cold air.
Best wine club in 2024
If you want expert help populating your new wine fridge with wines from the West Coast, Italy, France, South Africa, New Zealand and other countries known for producing fine wines, we recommend checking out CellarsWineClub’s Premium Wine Club. You can choose how many shipments you want, how often you want to receive shipments, and the types of wine (red, white, or both) you prefer to receive. Meanwhile, the Premium Case Club allows you to sample a curated selections of 12 wines at a time, every three months.
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After Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating, Memphis officer texted photo of bloodied man to ex-girlfriend, she testifies
A former Memphis police officer charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols sent his ex-girlfriend a photo of the badly injured man on the night he was punched, kicked and hit with a police baton following a traffic stop, according to trial testimony Wednesday.
Brittany Leake, a Memphis officer and Demetrius Haley’s former girlfriend, testified during the criminal trial that she was on the phone with Haley when officers pulled Nichols over for a traffic stop. She said she heard a “commotion,” including verbal orders for someone to give officers his hands.
The call ended, but Haley later texted the photo in a group chat comprising Haley, Leake and her godsister, she testified. Prosecutors displayed the photo for the jury. It showed Nichols with his eyes closed, on the ground with what appeared to be blood near his mouth and his hands behind his back.
Leake said that when she saw the photo, her reaction was: “Oh my God, he definitely needs to go to the Med.”
The Med is shorthand for Memphis’ trauma hospital.
The fatal beating, caught on police bodycams and street surveillance cameras, has sparked protests and calls for police reform. Officers said they pulled over Nichols for reckless driving, but Memphis’ police chief said there was no evidence to substantiate that claim.
Haley, Tadarrius Bean and Justin Smith are on trial after pleading not guilty to charges that they deprived Nichols of his civil rights through excessive force and failure to intervene, and obstructed justice through witness tampering. Their trial began Sept. 9 and is expected to run three to four weeks.
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The Memphis Police Department fired the three men, along with Emmitt Martin III and Desmond Mills Jr., after Nichols’ death. The beating was caught on police video, which was released publicly. The officers were later indicted on the federal charges. Martin and Mills have taken plea deals.
During her testimony Wednesday, Leake said she deleted the photo after she saw it and that sending such a photo is against police policy.
“I wasn’t offended, but it was difficult to look at,” she said.
Leake said Haley had sent her photos before of drugs, and of a person who had been injured in a car accident.
Earlier Wednesday, Martin was on the witness stand for a third day. Defense attorneys tried to show inconsistencies between Martin’s statements to investigators and his court testimony. Martin acknowledged lying about what happened to Memphis Police Department internal investigators, to try to cover up and “justify what I did.”
But Martin said he told the truth to FBI investigators after he pleaded guilty in August, including statements about feeling pressure on his duty belt where his gun was located during the traffic stop, but not being able to see if Nichols was trying to get his gun. Martin has testified that he said “let go of my gun” during the traffic stop.
Martin Zummach, the attorney for Justin Smith, asked Martin if he knew of any reasons why Nichols did not simply say, “I give up.”
“He’s out of it,” Martin said. “Disoriented.”
Martin testified that the situation escalated quickly when Haley pulled his gun and violently yanked Nichols from his car, using expletives and failing to tell Nichols why he had been pulled over and removed from the vehicle.
“He never got a chance to comply,” Martin said.
Nichols, who was Black, was pepper sprayed and hit with a stun gun during the traffic stop, but ran away, police video shows. The five officers, who also are Black, then beat him about a block from his home, as he called out for his mother.
Video shows the officers milling about and talking as Nichols struggled with his injuries. Nichols died Jan. 10, 2023, three days after the beating.
An autopsy report shows Nichols – the father of a boy who is now 7 – died from blows to the head. The report describes brain injuries, and cuts and bruises on his head and elsewhere on his body.
Jesse Guy testified that he was working as a paramedic for the Memphis Fire Department the night of the beating. He arrived at the location after two emergency medical technicians, Robert Long and JaMichael Sandridge.
Guy said he was not told about the medical problems Nichols had experienced before he arrived, and that Nichols was injured, seated on the ground and unresponsive.
Nichols had no pulse and was not breathing, and it “felt like he was lifeless,” Guy said.
In the ambulance, Guy performed CPR and provided mechanical ventilation, and Nichols had a pulse by the time he arrived at the hospital, the paramedic said.
Guy said Long and Sandridge did not say if they had checked Nichols’ pulse and heart rate, and they did not report if they had given him oxygen. When asked by one of Bean’s lawyers whether that information would have been helpful in treating Nichols, Guy said yes.
Long and Sandridge were fired for violating fire department policies after Nichols died. They have not been criminally charged.
The five officers also have been charged with second-degree murder in state court, where they pleaded not guilty. Mills and Martin are expected to change their pleas.
Federal prosecutors have previously recommended a 40-year sentence for Martin. A date has not been set in state court yet.
Nichols worked for FedEx, and he enjoyed skateboarding and photography. The city of Sacramento, where Nichols grew up, named a skatepark in his honor. “Tyre fell in love with skateboarding at a young age and it wasn’t long before it became a part of his lifestyle,” states the resolution approved by the city council. He had a tattoo of his mother’s name.
“Tyre Nichols’ family have been praying for justice and accountability from the very beginning of this tragedy,” Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, the civil rights attorneys representing Nichols’ family, said in a statement when the trial began.
Boeing’s CEO said Wednesday that the company will begin furloughing “a large number” of employees to conserve cash during the strike by union machinists that began last week.
Chief Executive Kelly Ortberg said the people who would be required to take time off without pay starting in coming days include executives, managers and other employees based in the U.S.
“While this is a tough decision that impacts everybody, it is in an effort to preserve our long-term future and help us navigate through this very difficult time,” Ortberg said in a company-wide message to staff.
Boeing didn’t say how many people will face rolling furloughs, but the number is expected to run into the tens of thousands. The aerospace giant had 171,000 employees at the start of the year.
About 33,000 Boeing factory workers in the Pacific Northwest began a strike Friday after rejecting a proposal to raise pay by 25% over four years. They want raises of at least 40%, the return of a traditional pension plan and other improvements in the contract offer they voted down.
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The strike is halting production of several airplane models including Boeing’s best-selling plane, the 737 Max. The company gets more than half of the purchase price when new planes are delivered to buyers, so the strike will quickly hurt Boeing’s cash flow.
Ortberg said selected employees will be furloughed for one week every four weeks while retaining their benefits. The CEO and other senior executives will take pay cuts during the duration of the strike, he said, without stating how deep the cuts will be.
All work related to safety, quality, customer support and certification of new planes will continue during the furloughs, he said, including production of 787 Dreamliner jets, which are built by nonunion workers in South Carolina.
Ortberg said in a memo to employees that the company is talking to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers about a new contract agreement that could be ratified.
“However, with production paused across many key programs in the Pacific Northwest, our business faces substantial challenges and it is important that we take difficult steps to preserve cash and ensure that Boeing is able to successfully recover,” he said.
Boeing’s chief financial officer warned employees earlier this week that temporary layoffs were possible.
The company, which is based in Arlington, Virginia, but has most of its commercial-airplanes business located in the Pacific Northwest, is also cutting spending on suppliers, freezing hiring and eliminating most travel.
Despite two full days of talks assisted by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the union said Wednesday that no resolution had been reached and no additional negotiations were scheduled, according to CBS Seattle affiliate KIRO-TV.
Striking workers are picketing at several locations in the Seattle area, Oregon and California. The union, which recommended the offer that members later rejected by a 96% vote, is surveying the workers to learn what they want in a new contract. The union’s last strike at Boeing, in 2008, lasted about two months.
If the walkout doesn’t end soon, Boeing’s credit rating could be downgraded to non-investment or junk status, which would make borrowing more expensive. Shortly after the walkout began Friday, Moody’s put Boeing on review for a possible downgrade, and Fitch said a strike longer than two weeks would make a downgrade more likely.
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