Countertop Wine Cellar Reviews

A kitchen’s ingredients are always easily accessible to make it much more convenient to cook, prep dishes, and serve them to family and guests. The same can be done with wine as well. But for an avid wine enthusiast or collector, simply having wine on a wooden rack, or just standing on the kitchen countertop beside the sink, will not do. Wine has to be stored and cooled well so its quality is maintained. This is why electric countertop wine cellars are available. These small wine cellar units will keep the wine cool and ready to go at all times.

Countertop wine coolers are storage units that keep wine at the right temperature at all times. And as the name implies, are small countertop wine coolers perfect for the kitchen counter. They are small enough to not get in the way of the kitchen, but can hold a varying number of wine bottles at the right temperatures.

COUNTERTOP WINE CELLAR BRANDS

Some are very tiny, like the RCA RFRW041 Wine Cooler, which only holds 4 bottles but is also only 9.92 x 14.68 x 20.27 inches. It is a small countertop wine fridge so sleek and compact, it just blends in!

Then there’s the Ivation IV-FWCT181DB 18 Bottle Dual Zone Thermoelectric Wine Cellar. Not only does it hold 18 bottles, it is also dual zone, meaning there are 2 sections inside that have slightly different temperatures, which is perfect if you own both white and red wines. Despite the capacity however, it is still just 13.5 x 20 x 25.4 inches big, which can still fit on a kitchen counter!  There's a reason it topped my Top 20 list for 2019.

On average however, most units have an 8 to 12 bottle capacity, are single zone, and thermoelectric, a technology that allows it to be quiet, energy and cost-efficient, and most importantly more compact than traditional compression type cooling systems. These small wine fridge countertop units include the Magic Chef MCWC12B 12-Bottle Single-Zone Wine Cooler, a sleek, black, sophisticated wine fridge countertop unit that can hold 12 bottles. and the NutriChef PKTEWC806 – 8 Bottle Thermoelectric Wine Cooler, a horizontal countertop wine fridge that can fit in even the lowest countertop clearances.  Both made our Top 20 list for 2019.