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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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The details of the murder are still shocking today, nearly three decades later. On Dec. 26, 1996, the 6-year-old daughter of John and Patsy Ramsey, a well-to-do couple living in Boulder, Colorado, was found dead in the family’s basement. JonBenét Ramsey, an outgoing child who performed in local beauty pageants, had been bludgeoned and strangled.
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It is a story I began covering for “48 Hours” in 1999 and will return to in “The Search for JonBenét’s Killer” airing Saturday, Dec. 21 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. The program is a look back at how we covered the case in 2002. It’s a television time capsule, allowing viewers to hear Patsy and John Ramsey talk about their daughter and how her death and the following investigation upended their lives.
Shortly before 6 a.m. on the morning after Christmas, Patsy Ramsey called 911. She had awakened, she later told police, to find her daughter missing and a two-and-a-half-page note left on the stairs demanding a $118,000 ransom.
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Despite a written warning not to notify anyone, the Ramseys called Boulder police, who searched their home and recommended the family wait for a call from the kidnappers. Later that day, a Boulder detective suggested John Ramsey and a family friend look through the home to see if anything looked out of place. When John Ramsey entered a room in the basement, he found his daughter dead on the floor, with a white blanket over her body and duct tape across her mouth.
The tragic discovery of the child by her own father, after officers had already searched the home, was the beginning of a yearslong, error-plagued investigation. JonBenét Ramsey’s murder was the first homicide that year in Boulder.
The case, after the acquittal of football star O.J. Simpson, immediately became the next international media sensation. Pictures of the photogenic 6-year-old competing in child beauty pageants appeared in the tabloids, while armchair detectives filled the airwaves, debating the contents of the ransom note.
Unidentified male DNA was left on the child and tests, performed just weeks after the murder, excluded anyone from the Ramsey family, including JonBenet’s 9-year-old brother Burke. Those results were initially kept from the press and public as investigators continued to focus mostly on John and Patsy Ramsey as suspects in their daughter’s murder.
While the couple gave DNA, hair, blood and writing samples in the days following the murder, they hired attorneys and didn’t speak to investigators until several months later, in April 1997, and again in June 1998. Video from that 1998 interrogation, aired publicly for the first time by “48 Hours,” shows a combative Patsy Ramsey denying any involvement in her daughter’s murder. When told that investigators had scientific trace evidence linking her, she responded, “That is totally impossible. Go retest.” She then added, “I don’t give a flying flip how scientific it is. Go back to the damn drawing board. I didn’t do it. John Ramsey didn’t do it. So we all got to start working together from here, this day forward to try to find out who the hell did it.”
In 2008, after more DNA tests again excluded the Ramsey family, the Boulder District Attorney at that time, Mary Lacy, publicly exonerated the Ramseys and sent them a letter of apology.
Investigators considered the theory that JonBenét may have been killed by an intruder, and over the years, looked at other persons of interest, including a neighbor who played Santa Claus and at least two people who confessed to the murder.
The only arrest in the case was made in 2006 after a man living in Thailand by the name of John Mark Karr claimed to have drugged, sexually assaulted and accidentally killed JonBenét. No drugs, however, had been found in the child and Karr’s DNA did not match what was left at the scene. Karr was later released.
Patsy Ramsey never lived to see the Boulder district attorney’s apology or have her name cleared. In 2006, she died, at age 49, of ovarian cancer. But John Ramsey, who remarried in 2011, has continued to push the Boulder police to find and arrest his daughter’s killer.
If JonBenét Ramsey had lived, she would have turned 34 years old in August. In an interview with “48 Hours” in November, John Ramsey said he can’t imagine his daughter as a grown woman, but only as a 6-year-old. He said he is confident that the unknown male DNA profile in the case will ultimately lead to a suspect in her murder. He is asking investigators in Boulder to turn over that DNA to an independent private lab that can employ the same technology, genetic genealogy, that was used to identify the Golden State Killer in 2018, and countless others since.
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Ramsey also said there are seven items of evidence from the family’s home that could still be tested for DNA including, he said, the garrote used to strangle JonBenét, a rope found in a guest bedroom, as well as a blanket. The Boulder Police Department, however, in a release in November, disputed Ramsey’s contention that they are not testing evidence.
“The assertion that there is viable evidence and leads we are not pursuing—to include DNA testing — is completely false,” read a Boulder Police statement. Still, in a nearly six-minute video that was also released, the current Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn admits, “there were things that people have pointed to throughout the years that could have been done better and we acknowledge that is true.”
John Ramsey, who turned 81 in early December, has lived under a cloud of suspicion for nearly three decades, but he said the weight of constant public scrutiny was nothing compared to the loss of his child.
“It was just noise level stuff,” Ramsey said, “We were so devastated and crushed by the loss of JonBenét … it didn’t matter … it didn’t matter.”
He is speaking out now, he said, because an arrest in the case would finally give some peace to his son Burke, now in his 30s, and his two older children from his first marriage.
“… identifying the killer,” he said, “isn’t gonna change my life at this point, but it will change the lives of my children and my grandchildren. This cloud needs to be removed from our family’s head and this chapter closed for their benefit.”
In addition to fighting to keep his daughter’s case in the public eye, Ramsey is working to see the passage of The Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act, which would allow a murder victim’s family to request a federal review of their case.
“That would be a huge step forward to fix a fundamental problem in our system in this country,” Ramsey said, “not a complete solution, but it’s a step forward.”
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7-year-old girl killed, 6 other people wounded in stabbing attack at school in Croatia, police say
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A 7-year-old girl was killed and at least five other students and a teacher were wounded in a knife attack at a school in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, on Friday, police said. The local hospital said the wounded teacher had suffered life-threatening injuries, Reuters reported.
Officials said the attack happened at 9:50 a.m. local time at the Precko Elementary School in the neighborhood of the same name. They described the attacker as a “young male” and said he had been detained.
Croatia’s Interior Ministry said the attacker was 19 years old. Local media reported the attacker was a former student at the school, and showed video footage of children running away from the school building and a medical helicopter landing in the schoolyard.
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said he was “appalled” by the attack, and that authorities are still working to determine exactly what happened. He said several children have been taken to various hospitals in Zagreb.
State television reported the attacker went straight into the first classroom he found after entering the school, where he attacked the students and their teacher.
School attacks are rare in Croatia. Last May, a teenager in neighboring Serbia opened fire at a school in the capital Belgrade, killing nine fellow students and a school guard.
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