VinotempReviews of vinotemp.com

We really enjoy our Vinotemp wine cabinet. We’ve had it nine years and have had to replace the cooling unit twice. Delivery of this most recent cooling unit was complicated by Vinotemp entering the wrong delivery address, which delayed repair/maintenance of our unit and ALMOST resulted in the unit being returned to Vinotemp because the unit could not be delivered to the wrong address. So four stars may be a generous rating. While the unit functions well, I think replacing the cooling unit twice in less than ten years is an indication of poor quality, and I was frustrated by the delivery delay.

Very happy with units. Runs quite. Would have given 5 stars but I had to adjust one of the refrigeration units in the cabinet so the door could close and seal.

so far, so good. I'm not sure we chose the best unit for our house as its specs say it can cool a room twice as large as the closet we are using for wine storage. So far, it does the job. I wish we had a bigger room to vent into, because the small room where it's vented now gets pretty warm. I chose to have a pro install it so they could do straight cuts in the wall and add a horizontal brace between the wall joists

I was surprised at the fact that my order of a 1500CD cooling unit was not available from stock. It had to be assembled before it could ship. It was the cause of a delay in delivery. Great support from the tech team in identifying the proper part number I needed to order.

After it arrived and was installed, our replacement refrigeration unit appears to be working well. Be aware that there may be a delay between when the order is received and the unit is delivered.

Little noisy. Humming sound. Shelves stick.

Model EL-54COMM seems to be keeping a resonable temperature. My cheap thermometer reads 55 degrees; the LED temperature of the cooler reads 53. The compressor cycles on about every 15-20 minutes for 5 minutes and a fan cycles more frequently to control humidity. The sound is audible, but not obnoxious. The humidity fan is quieter than the compressor. It claims to hold 41 bottles, but I only fit 36. That is not a problem for me; I have not tried to cram more bottles inside and have not tried to adjust the shelves. The top shelf could hold 5 or 6 splits. The shelf mechanism glides out very easily for quick loading. All but the bottom shelf holds the bottles parallel to the front making the labels easy to read. The bottom, stationary shelf holds the bottles perpendicular to the front. I am happiest that the shelves accept various bottle sizes (probably decreasing the total number). The slide-out shelves hold most sizes except champagne, but the bottom shelf holds six champagne bottles with no problem. Bottle diameter is critical to the number of bottles any cooler will hold. Many manufactures use "standard" when referring to bottle size. Standard is generally the size of a 750 ml bordeaux bottle (very pronounced shoulders near the top; cabaret sauvignon and zinfandel come in this shape). However, other than specialty wines, this is the smallest diameter bottle. Fitting sloped bottles like chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, or point noir, for example, into "standard" can be difficult because their diameter is up to one-half inch larger. I am very satisfied with this cooler and recommend it to those who do not store a larger number of bottles. In addition, customer service was very quick to answer a question I emailed about the humidity fan.

So far appears to be a very nice wine refrigerator, the only issue I had was it was very difficult to find the Serial number to register the product. I called the technical support number and they told me how to find it although on the tag, they do not refer to it as a serial number, they refer to it as a Product Number and since that was the only other number other than the Model # I assumed it was the serial number. Other than that we look forward to enjoying it.