Haier ZHVTM06PBB 6-Bottle Wine Cellar

• HAIER AMERICA ZHVTM06PBB 6-BOTTLE WINE CELLAR

I ordered this wine cellar to replace one that had stopped working. My old one was also a 6 bottle cellar but when I compared the dimensions listed here on Amazon,this one was bigger. It was 3 inches taller. I almost didnt order it for this reason. I searched for a few days and decided to go ahead and purchase this one. After ordering, I spent half the day moving things around to find a new place for this larger unit. I received my order yesterday . I was shocked when I took it out of the box and set it beside the old one . They were IDENTICAL in size! It appears to me that the dimensions listed on this include the SHIPPING BOX!!

This wine cellar is quiet and cooling perfectly. I am very happy with my purchase. The dimensions of this wine cellar are 20 inches deep X 14.5 inches tall X 10 inches wide .

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I purchased this chiller to age homemade cheese in. Most of the cheese we make has to age for several weeks to several months at certain temps. This little chiller will fit the bill to a T. Actually we can have wine and cheese any time now. Great little cooler.

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Very pleased with this unit so far. Exterior digital display makes it easy to keep and eye on the temp. The temp selector is an analog dial inside the unit, and doesn't have numeric scale, so there's some trial and error to get the right temp, but overall works well. The unit is out in our garage that fluctuates with the outside temp, and overall does a very good job maintaining temp, even when it's up into the 80s and 90s outside. Will be purchasing a 2nd one shortly so we can have a red and white cellar at different temps.

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I bought this to age cheese and wine in, per another review. It works great. The temp is controlled by a knob inside the unit, so you may have to do a little trial and error to get it to where you need it. Not bad at all.

To start with, I'm not a wine cona "sewer". I don't know that much about it and would never pay a lot for it. Crown Royal is my drink of choice. However, I saw this wine deal from Wall Street Journal. The introductory offer was about 15 bottles for about $90 with no shipping charges. This is about $6 a bottle which is in my league. Every 3 months or so they offer you some more but not so cheaply. You can cancel at any time. (Wish it was that easy with marriage!) So I ordered it. The bottles have nice labels and many foreign pedigrees.

While drinking that first bottle, I decided to investigate wine chillers again. I had looked several years ago and Consumers Reports had reviewed many, mostly bad. I looked again and Consumers has rated only the expensive, $1500, models. I would never pay that. So, I started looking at Amazon. This model seemed to have good reviews and the price was good. (At that time, it was $62 with free, Amazon Prime, shipping. Now, the price is not so good.)

I kinda wanted the nickel finish but someone wrote that the whole unit wasn't nickel so I opted for this black one, a little cheaper, and, it would go okay in our kitchen. The unit was very well packed in an extra heavy cardboard box and enclosed in Styrofoam. I thought the quality was excellent. It fits very nicely on our kitchen counter, not taking up very much room. It has an internal LED lite that you can turn off if you want. It's not enough light to read the bottle labels but it is really cool looking when you have your friends over.

Haier seems to be pretty well known for making refrigeration units. This unit, however, does not have a compressor. It uses thermoelectric cooling, conversion of electricity into cooling. As such, it could be more reliable (and smaller) and quieter. You might compare this unit to a Styrofoam cooler with ice on the bottom. There aren't any coils in the sides, bottom, or top of this unit. Maybe a negative is that the unit runs all of the time to maintain the desire cooling.

The manual states that the internal temperature is a function of the external temperature. This makes sense if you again think of this unit as similar to a Styrofoam cooler. We keep our home at about 70 degrees. I found that the min and max temperatures of this unit were 47 and 63 degrees which is agreement with the manual specifications and covers what I found on the internet to be a recommended range for wine chilling 43 to 65 degrees. For me, if it contains alcohol and I want it, I will drink it no matter what its temperature is! The temperature adjustment is a simple knob. Those that desire more precision should perhaps opt for a digital model.

As far as the Wall Street Wine goes, I was disappointed. I thought that the big W Mart wine, going for $4, was much better. One reviewer complained about noise from this unit. There is some noise from the fan which runs all the time, but, unless you live in a mortuary, any noise would probably be overcome by your refrigerator, TV, or kids. At the price I paid, I was thinking about buying more units simply for storage of something! It is pretty cool looking!

Unless you think you can drink more than 6 bottles a day, when even I, a serious drinker, can't, I think this unit is a good choice. With the price increase I have just seen, you might evaluate other units. I definitely think that a non-compressor unit is the way to go for small (and cheap) coolers.