by Jenise » Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:35 am
William, good luck in your quest. I don't know a lot about these things, but I owned one once that I would caution anyone against buying one like. Don't recall the brand, but I bought it at Costco maybe ten years ago--it was a floor to counter-height model but narrow and sized perfectly to fit in the hole created by removing a trash compactor or, as in my case, an old ice machine that came with the house. I replaced it entirely a few years later when we remodeled our kitchen. Anyway, the problem was, that instead of pull-out rack 'drawers' like the one I have now, it had stationery right-to-left metal rods that undulated in shape so that bottles fit in the recesses. Only problem was, they were spaced to hold the bottoms and necks of bottles, and the space between them was fairly wide without any interim support, and though a pinot noir bottle fit in there just fine you had to get it JUST so which, being so bottom heavy, it's not very well balanced to do, and any bottle in the upper reaches that got knocked slightly out of alignment would fall on the bottles below which in turn...you get the picture.
My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov