Insignia™ - 29 Bottle Wine Cooler with ENERGY STAR Certification - Stainless Steel Look

I love my new beverage refrigerator! It gives me options to have many different drinks, and allows me to grab and go or serve my guest when I have company. This unit doesn’t have a brand logo, so it goes well with my other appliances.

It looks good, works good but when the compressor kicks in, is loud! If you don’t have a problem with that, is a good choice!

This wine cooler was a Christmas Gift to my husband and he loves it! I did my research before buying it and it’s a great value for the money! It looks nice and has all the features that he wanted to keep his wine collection at the right temperature.

Love my wine cooler!it works great and fit perfectly in my kitchen.

The Insignia 29 bottle wine cooler has been a great addition to my household. We are fairly regular wine and champagne consumers in my household and it is not uncommon for us to go through 5 or 6 bottles when entertaining. In the past I had to play a delicate game of rotating bottles in my fridge or freezer to quickly get them to temp. This is difficult to manage when you are cooling different types of wines, which have different serving temps. The outside of the cooler looks very good, and matches my expectations for the price point. The sides are all black, but the front door is trimmed out in stainless steel. The front door also has a full window allowing you to look inside. The door can be mounted to open from either side – out of the box the door is mounted with the hinges on the right side. I left the door in this position as it worked best for where I located the cooler. Inside the door at the top are all of the controls. There is a power button, light button, a display for the set temp, and up/down temp control buttons. If you press and hold the power and light button for 3s you will switch it over to a quick cool down mode. The cooler has 5 full shelves that hold 5 bottles each, which orient the bottle to have the cork facing out. The bottom of the cooler isn’t as deep due to the compressor and refrigeration system eating up some of that space. The bottom shelf ends up holding 4 bottles in a stacked 2+2 shelf with the bottles facing left to right. There’s additional space to the left of that shelf where you can stick mini bottles or whatever you might want to fit in that area. The shelves are all removable allow you to slide them out to take a look at what is on that shelf. If, for whatever reason, you need to remove a shelf, there is another slot at the very top where you can store the shelf . I can’t see any other reason for this shelf location, since no bottles will fit on the shelf if you put it there. These shelves are made and spaced for standard sized wine bottles. Larger/fatter bottles fit in the top shelf and very bottom shelf, but will have clearance issues fitting in the middle shelves. I had to locate my champagne bottles in the bottom shelf because of this. The cooler operates from 41-64°F, and the manual provides guidelines for proper storage temps for different types of wine. Most of the wines we drink are whites, rosés, and young reds. The cooler has a temperature gradient from top to bottom where the bottom is the coldest region of the cooler. The manual recommends storing champagne/sparkling wines at the bottom, whites above that, then rosés, then young reds, and then Bordeax’s and Burgundy’s at the top. That’s mainly how I have arranged my cooler. I have found that the temp gradient is the reason for this order, which I measured with some temp sensors I had. With the cooler temperature set to its lowest (41°) the bottom of the cooler was actually a bit colder at 38°. The first regular shelf was right at 41°, the middle shelf was 45°, and the top shelf was 48°. These temp measurements were taken with 20 bottles in the cooler spread fairly evenly on the shelves, and the door had been kept closed for over an hour. For me this temp range worked out really well as my champagnes were kept nice and cold, and my whites and rosés were kept at their optimal temp. My reds were a little on the cold side, but just leaving them out on the counter for a few minutes was enough to bring them to the correct serving temp. There are a couple of things to note about the cooler. The biggest one, for me, is the light. The light works great and you can see everything inside with ease when it’s on. However, turning it on requires opening the door. I wish the light had a few options like being tied to a door contact switch, or on a timer, or just have the button accessible without needing to open the door. The other thing to note is the compressor isn’t the quietest and you get a little bit of coil whine when it’s operating. Since I have mine set at the lowest temp the compressor runs a bit more often. It’s not egregious, but I wouldn’t want to sit next to this all day if I had the choice. For my purposes its not noticeable at all as I go about my day. Overall, I really like having this cooler. It has freed up a bunch of space in my fridge and on my shelf where my wine rack normally sat. I like that it keeps it cold enough for champagne, and it has more than enough space to stockpile all the wine we need for a decent stretch. The cooler works really well, and I think it looks pretty sleek. It would blend right in in a nice home-bar setup.