Anyone have any recommendations for wine storage fridges?
Have some stuff that I want to store correctly and I'm a bit worried about the summer temps. Looking for wood racks, good temp and humidity controls, and if possible dual zone.
IMO - temp is not as much as a prob these days with Stelvin caps.
It is essential to keep your plonk out of sunlight/UV and preferably in a reasonably cool spot (I use the bottom of a cupboard and in store cardboard boxes for extra insulation) and you should be ok for a couple of years cellaring.
If you are cellaring for a long haul (+3yrs) or spending BIG $$ on plonk, then spend BIG $$ on storage. Otherwise, spend the fridge money on vino and go for somewhere reasonably dark and cool and you'll be right.
Partay at Rello's!!! 
EDIT: Keepin the Kilkenny nice n cold underneath all the ice Rello? 
For short term storage I highly recommend the mouth, followed by the stomach.
For longer term storage the toilet is ok but I prefer the lemon tree.
Vintech schmintech most of them come out of the same factory in china.
My personal unit is a 240ish bottle transtherm that I picked up second hand from an old dear whose hubby had passed, along with 15 lt bottles of various single malts that she had no use for. All for five hunjy.
There's no need for dual zone, just set the thermostat at 14 and 16 degrees. It only takes 5 minutes to take whites down to 12ish and reds are perfect served at 16.
I'm a wholesaler and bought 5 Vintech 36 or 40 bottle units as customer giveaways last year, only because of the public perception of vintech quality. Quality wise they're no better than some I have previously bought from Kmart for a venue I was working at for $100ish. Wholesale price from vintech was $480 ex GST, same units retail at over a grand.
If it was me I'd buy a nice big second hand fridge for a coupla hunj and have a fridgy install a thermostat that has a upper and lower cut out. End result is the same and a whole lot cheaper.
The price of wine fridges is a load of wank.
Only need 1 for the beer.
Baba if you're worried about humidity (I don't) just get some of that green foamy stuff that florists use and stick it in a bowl. It's really only an issue if you intend to store cork sealed wine for an extended period.
I don't, cork sucks arse. If I want to drink something that is cork sealed there is plenty of retailers that cellar good euro booze that I can grab a bottle off and if it's corked it goes straight back. Nothing worse than sitting on a bottle of great booze for a decade only to open it to the stench of wet dog
dont think i want to crack the dozen Grange bottles. Will let someone who buys em off me in 10 years do that
What vintage? Very vintage dependent as to whether it's worth keeping hold of to flog. Grange is very much like bordeaux in this respect.
www.graysonline.com/search.aspx?q=grange
Unless it's a special vintage piss it off and use the coin for something useful, it won't appreciate and unless you have receipts from a commercial storage center you have no proof of correct cellaring conditions. Doesn't help that you can order Grange online from the States or the UK cheaper than the wholesale price in OZ.
The wine investment market is a tough and very fickle place.
Baba was that the grappa that went missing from the house next door??
The feds have been looking for that all week........
