NewAir AW-280E Classic 28 Bottle Thermoelectric Wine Collector, Black

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Product Feature

• Stylish chrome-plated wine racks slide-out for easy access to your favorite bottle of wine
• Thermoelectric cooling technology operates quietly & offers vibration free storage to protect the natural flavors of the wine
• Features an interior LED light for accenting your favorite wines, while still ensuring they are stored at the proper temperature
• Digital temperature display allows you to check the temperature of your wine with just a glance
• Boasts an elegant freestanding design with a sleek silver handle & black trimmed door, storing up to 28 bottles of wine

Product Description

Stores up to 28 of Wine!
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Easy to Adjust Control Panel

NewAir AW-280E Classic 28 Bottle Thermoelectric Wine Cooler

If you're a wine connoisseur and need a way to keep your favorite flavors handy and within easy reach, then the NewAir AW-280E 28 bottle thermoelectric wine cooler is just what you need. Designed for new and advanced collectors alike, this wine cooler chills your best options to an ideal temperature. With lots of amenities and a handsome design, this unit is a great choice! Here, NewAir combines style and practicality to present a wine cooler that accentuates any setting.

Vibration Free Technology

Preserve wine flavor and aroma in this thermoelectric, vibration free design! The NewAir AW-280E 28 bottle wine cooler allows you to savor the full flavor of your wine the way it was meant to be enjoyed! Store wine without altering the acidity, tannins, or the refractive index. Vibration free technology chills wine to its best advantage; every bottle you serve will taste exactly as it should.

Large Capacity Design

Personalize the interior to meet your storage needs! Featuring 6 removable and sliding chrome racks, this NewAir 28 bottle classic wine cooler lets you customize the core and create a space that's specific to your collection. All racks are made to cradle up to 28 standard wine bottles and because they're adjustable, you can make room for Champagne, too! Maximizing storage capabilities allows you to build an admirable collection.

LED Display & Digital Thermostat

Using the digital thermostat you can chill wine just the way you like it! Fully accessible push button controls and digital temperature readout is made to be user-friendly and provide accurate temperature control for best results. Optimize wine aroma and flavor! This NewAir AW-280E chills wine from 54-66° F to provide superior results without over chilling. It's designed to properly safeguard even your best vintages.

Features:

• Digital thermostat with push button controls an digital readout is easy to set and provides accurate temperature control
• Compact design fits in small spaces easily and requires only 4" of clearance on all sides!
• Interior LED light and clear glass door allows for optimal viewing
• Low noise level rating makes this unit a great option for any environment
• Thermoelectric design is vibration free to help preserve flavor and aroma
• Excellent customer reviews for superior temperature control
• Equipped with sliding and removable shelves for custom storage
• Easily stores up to 28 bottles of your favorite wine
• Modern design is made from top-quality materials and complements decor

About NewAir

Using the most advanced technology, NewAir produces appliances that make your life easier. Exceptional design quality and original detailing set NewAir appliances apart from any other brand. Through constant research and testing, we continuously strive to perfect our appliances and provide incomparable merchandise that is exclusive to the NewAir name.

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NewAir AW-280E Classic 28 Bottle Thermoelectric Wine Collector, Black Review

SEE the UPDATE at the bottom of this review.

I've owned this fridge for three months now, and for the price, it has performed reasonably well--so far. When you add together the price and the shipping rates, you probably won't be able to find a cheaper thermoelectric wine fridge with this storage capacity. (I consider the non-vibrating feature of thermoelectric fridges an important requirement for cellaring wine long term.) However, there are some definite deficiencies and one really big question mark about long-term performance.

As my wine collection has grown, I've purchased several wine fridges from different manufacturers. Of the four wine fridges I now own, this one has the cheapest look and feel. Yes, it looks quite attractive from a distance, but when you get up close, you notice that every element of its construction seems just a little (and sometimes a lot) flimsier than my other fridges. For example, the material used for the inside walls of this fridge looks and feels like extremely thin plastic that could easily crack or be punctured. (The plastic liner seems comparable in weight and thickness to the thin plastic that is often used for packagaing small electronics accessories like headphones or video cables.) This plastic inside wall liner will probably hold up just fine if treated gently, but it seems like a clue to overall quality.

Similarly, the chrome trays that hold the bottles are just a little thinner, lighter, and flimsier than those in my other wine fridges. Speaking of the trays, with a tray loaded with bottles, you are supposed to be able to pull it out a few inches to get easier access to the bottles and a better view of the label. But the trays on this fridge do not slide smoothly once they are loaded with wine. Instead, they snag and get hung up. In fact, I worry that the force required to unstick and pull out a tray with bottles on it either might cause the bottles to come flying out on onto the floor or might tear the thin plastic that lines the inside walls of the fridge. So to get a tray out safely, you have to remove the bottles first, which defeats the purpose of having trays that are supposed to slide partway out for easier viewing and access.

With gentle and careful use, you can probably avoid problems with the flimsy physical construction of this fridge; however, the thing that worries me most about this fridge is the long-term endurance of the thermoelectric cooling device. This fridge sits side-by-side with another fridge I own that was made by another manufacturer and has exactly the same storage capacity. Compared to the other manufacturer's fridge, the AW fridge's cooling device kicks on and runs more often and longer--probably more than twice as long--to maintain the same temperature. With the temp set at 55 degrees, this fridge's cooling system runs almost non-stop, never shutting off for more than just a few minutes before kicking back on for another long stretch, and that's what makes me worry about long term durability. Because of my concern about the cooling device running constantly, I've raised the temp setting from 55 to 58 degrees, and that seems to help somewhat, but this thermoelectric fridge's cooling device still runs much more often and much longer with the setting at 58 degrees than my other same-size thermoelectric fridge does at 55. It only makes sense that the more often the cooling device kicks on, and the longer it runs, the shorter will be its working lifespan.

One last word to the wise: For those who are just starting to appreciate the pleasures and advantages of cellaring your own wine, maybe it makes sense to buy a small cheap "starter" unit until you can decide whether your wine bug is a temporary infection, a manageable illness, or a lifelong obsession. But before doing as I did--buying a second, and then a third, and then a fourth fairly small fridge--consider taking the money you'd spend on a bunch of small fridges and instead putting those dollars into the cost of one higher quality, higher capacity unit that will solve your wine-storage needs over the long haul. Better yet, find 25 or 30 cubic feet of space under the stairs or in a closet of your house, wall it off, put in racks, insulate it, and buy a cooling unit to refrigerate it, to make your own mini-cellar where you can easily store several hundred bottles.

The Bottom Line: This fridge seems like a fair deal for the price, but if I had it to do over, I think I'd be better off in the long haul spending just a little more for a probably more durable fridge of the same size (which you can find on sale for not that much more), or putting the money into a much larger fridge or cellaring system that would better satisfy both present and future wine storage needs.

UPDATE: The original review above was written in July 2009, about three months after I purchased this wine frig in early April 2009. This update was written in mid-August 2010. Today my New Air 28 bottle wine frig died. It lasted about 16 months. To reflect the short life span, I've deducted a star, reducing my rating to two stars. This unit never was able to get down to 55 degrees. The coldest it could do was 60 or 61. So to keep the unit from overworking itself, I set the temp to 60, instead of 55. Two of my three comparable Wine Enthusiast branded units are still running. One of my three WineEnth branded units has also died, so the fact is, none of these thermo-electric units can be expected to last very long. As stated in my original review above, rather of buying one or more of these cheapie units, I would recommend putting that money into a better product that will hold more bottles, or better yet, build your own mini-cellar in closet or under a stairway.

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