Wine Coolers

Drinks and Wine Coolers

A drinks or wine cooler holds bottles at serving temperature without taking up space in the main fridge, from a compact table-top model for a home bar to a larger freestanding or built-under unit for a kitchen island. Bottle capacity and whether it is dual-zone, meaning two independently controlled compartments for reds and whites at their correct temperatures, are the key specs, alongside freestanding against built-under fitting depending on where it needs to go.

Two things separate a wine cooler from a fridge and are worth knowing. The temperature range is higher and narrower, typically 5 to 18 degrees rather than the 1 to 5 of a fridge, because wine held at fridge temperature is served too cold and stored badly. And the shelves are contoured for bottles lying down rather than flat for food. A drinks cooler is the other shape again, built to hold cans and bottles upright and chilled hard, which is what suits a home bar or an office.

Heavins stocks drinks and wine coolers from Amica, Hoover, Belling and Bosch, alongside mini fridges for general chilled storage. For the full range see fridges and freezers.

Prices are live all year, so see what is reduced now on fridges and freezers on sale, or the Black Friday wine cooler deals.