I bought this to keep wine from getting too warm, especially in the summer. I think a lot of people treat this sort of thing like a fridge. It's not a fridge. If you put it on the coldest setting, you'll be making the fan work hard and it won't last as long as it ought to. I keep mine at 65 degrees and store mostly red wines in it. Most are fine for drinking at that temperature. I transfer whites to the fridge (or wrap in a wet towel and put in the freezer for 10 minutes or use a vac-u-vin wine chilling sleeve if I can find it) before drinking those. The Sunpentown (yes, the same company that makes the very highly rated SU-4010 humidifier) comes very well packaged with an unfortunately large amount of styrofoam. It seems to be missing a foot when you first open it, but it turns out this is a design feature, not a design flaw. Or so they tell me. Anyway, the good news is that it does not affect operation. The shelves are not adjustable, but it will store 20 standard wine bottles pretty well. Bigger bottles are a challenge. Thicker champagne bottles won't go. Tall bottles are usually OK in the middle of the fridge because the glass in the door isn't as close to the bottles as the rest of the door, but really tall Reislings would be a challenge. There's a little light inside which goes on if you've left the door open too long, but isn't really an automatic light (you have to switch it off manually). It's fine, but not great. The whole thing is quiet and discreet. It's as loud as a very quiet fan, and there's no juddering of a compressor when it switches on or off. That's because there is no compressor (this still isn't a fridge). It's just a fan and some cooling fins. None of that is exposed at the back of the cabinet but you will need to leave room for air movement. This is NOT suitable for installing in a cabinet, requiring inches of clearance on all sides to function properly. However, it's about the same height as a nice coffee table and works very well for that purpose in my spare room. No idea yet on reliability. If I have problems, I'll update this review. I'm generally pretty happy with it.

Just bought this for my boyfriend and we love it. First off I was astonished at how quickly this item got here. I believe it only took 3 or so days. The item came in great condition with appropriate wrapping. Granted we have only had this wine fridge for a couple hours now, we absolutely love it. It looks great..when the blue led light is not on, it looks like a modern piece of equipment. My boyfriend was worried that it would be too loud and when we initially plugged it in, it was a bit loud, but as soon as the temperature hit its set amount, the fan turned off and it became extremely quiet. Now my bf is really picky and this would have been the main reason why we would have returned it, but he was quite happy. The size is perfect for us too...and we found that it fit our larger wine gbottles...another big requirement for my boyfriend. All in all we are happy with our purchase and would definitely recommend.