Good advice on the Perlicks. They are one of the few, and maybe the "Only" that offers variable speed compressors on their wine fridges. Sooooo, what's the big deal about a variable speed commpressor??? Better temp control, (less temp fluctuation for your wines). More efficient. Less "Cycling" (on/off). Need proof??? Remove the accelerator pedal from your car and replace it with an on/off switch and then get in and drive that succer, (if you dare)!!!! The motor is either full on or full off, just like wine coolers or even fridges/freezers with old style compressors. They have to "Overcool", then shut the motor off, wait for contents to get "Too warm" and then come back on full blast---very "Ancient Technology" and Yep I have one, An Elux Wine Fridge, it does OK, but why not do better???? At least I did with my 48 JA built in Fridge! Good luck on your choices!! Gary

I never did get a response to my post above but now understand that in fact Marvel makes models for Viking and not the reverse. My main reason for posting though is to say that we went with the Marvel. It was delivered last week and installed a few days ago and you wouldn't even know it was running. Not sure where all the comments about it being noisy are coming from. Maybe there are a few lemons out there but after lurking for a while in several of the forums it's clear there is some deliberate slamming of products, often by the same people over and over again. Such incredible negative energy, especially in the Laundry forum. I find it hard to believe people can be that passionate over a fridge or washer. I guess I'm saying the info here can be helpful but must sometimes be weighed carefully. PS-My granite broke during install yesterday, my fridge has been missing in action for weeks now and the drywall guy's tools have found a home here but we haven't seen him for 2 weeks. I share the pain many of you are going through.

We have a Magic Chef wine AND beverage cooler...we wanted it to store soda, beer as well as a few bottles of wine...it was from HD and cost $300-$400. We went to Magic Chef's website and bought and additional glass shelf because we wanted more can storge than wine bottle. So we removed one of the wine bottle shelves and put in this extra shelf. We love it...and it is soooooo quiet..lucked out there I believe. The wine cooler was almost an after thought..and just thought it would be somethinf fun..however, I couldn't justify paying as much for a wine cooler as we did our new fridge, so that is why we went with this affordable option. We thought that maybe down the road, if/when we could afford a higher-end wine cooler, we would get one. What we love about this wine cooler that is sooo hard to find, is that it has a black interior..most have white...I like that when the light is on inside that it is a nice accent light to the kitchen and it doesn't look like a typical white refrigerator inside.

That's a nice looking piece but OUCH $2400. I recently had a local custom furniture builder make me a media center credenza, probably slightly less complicated than the wine cabinet you linked to but definitely larger, for under $1000. Gorgeous cherry wood too. I'd say it's worth looking for someone local, a carpenter/furniture builder, and getting quotes. That way you get exactly what you want and I'm betting it won't cost nearly as much.