Full Height and Tall Wine Fridges

What is a tall wine fridge?

Full height wine fridges are over 160cm tall and typically hold between 100-300 bottles of wine making them better value for money Vs their smaller competitors as they will cellar more bottles over time for a lower cost. The larger units can also work out cheaper by bottle than storing your wine with a merchant.

Customers choose tall, full height wine fridges for a number of reasons but the main reason is usually that they have a large amount of bottles that they wish to cellar over the longer term or they would like a tall, dual zone wine cooler for wine service.

Tall wine fridges can be either freestanding, built in or freestanding or used for long term maturation; wine storage cabinets.

What’s the difference between a tall freestanding wine fridge Vs a tall built-in or tall integrated wine fridge?

Wine fridges are split into different categories based on how the vent. Tall freestanding wine fridges vent from all around and need 2-3 inches of space all around and 30cm on top to operate properly. Tall, built-in wine fridges stand on the floor and run to heights similar to a fridge freezer. These can be single or dual zone and vent from a panel at the bottom of the fridge. Finally, a tall integrated wine fridge is 178cm tall and integrates fully into a kitchen aperture and may even be self ventilating, if not, it will vent from behind.

Why choose a tall wine fridge?

All our wine fridges will protect your wine from the environmental culprits that can harm their long term potential. All the doors of our tall wine fridges are UV protected, all come with digital temperature controls to regulate temperature. Humidity is taken care of automatically within these units and vibrations are dulled through the mountings of the technology inside the wine fridge. This is true especially for tall wine cabinets because they usually contain the very best technology from the wine cabinet producer as these are the units that the world's finest wines are stored.

• Cheaper than maturing your wine in the cellars of a wine merchant.
• Large capacities allow a better unit price per bottle than standard units regularly from 100-300 bottles.
• Dual zone units allow partial storage and partial service or 100% service of reds, whites and Champagnes.
• Many are equipped with locks to keep out thieves and teenagers.
• Carbon filters in many units allow for the long term maturation of fine wine.
• Style - with colour changing LED lights, mahogany display shelves and even smart tech monitoring your collection, only the larger wine cabinets come with these features. They look amazing in the home, bar or restaurant.

How to install a tall wine fridge?

Tall wine cabinets come in three different installation types; freestanding, built-in or integrated. Which one you choose will depend upon the location you've allocated to your tall wine fridge.

Tall Freestanding Wine Fridges

Tall freestanding wine coolers can be placed anywhere around the home, garage, cellar, restaurant or bar. They come in a variety of widths and depths, the only caveat is that they must be allowed to vent the hot air that the act of internal cooling produces. This means there should be around 5cm of space left around the wine fridge in the area it is set up and 30cm above it.

If you'd like to place your tall freestanding wine cooler in a location outside of the home, or somewhere where the ambient temperatures dip below 12°C then you'll need to ensure the wine cooler has a 'winter system'. These can be selected using the filters on this webpage.

The most reliable and prestigious wine cabinets are made by EuroCave, the originator of the wine cabinet.

Built-in and Integrated Tall Wine Fridges

Quite the opposite of freestanding units, built-in and integrated units can be placed next to cabinetry in your kitchen or even integrated directly into the kitchen design, raised off the floor and/or with a door of your own design closing on them. These tall wine fridges vent from a panel at the bottom front of the wine fridge, as long as that isn't obscured, then these wine fridges may be paced next to other kitchen units (or walls).

Tall built-in wine coolers come in a range of prices and colours and are often dual zone and created for the purpose of wine storage, housed in a modern kitchen.

The key exponents of built in wine fridges are Swisscave and Dunavox.

Tall Wine Fridges for Commercial use

With the exception of the Montpellier range, all of our full height wine fridges can be used commercially in pubs, bars and restaurants. They are durable and made to be accessed multiple times a day (excluding maturation cabinets).

We've supplied commercial wine fridges to the Savoy and Intercontinental hotels in London as well as Gordon Ramsay's restaurants and a host of wine bars across London. The most popular brand of wine cooler with restaurants is Swisscave's premium edition thanks to their stylish good looks, lock and easy access sliding shelves.

Which are the best tall wine fridge brands?

The best brands would be EuroCave, Liebherr, Swisscave and Dunavox.

Best selling full height wine cooler for the home - MONTPELLIER WC181X

The Montpellier WC181X is extremely popular due to its keen price and full stack shelving. This freestanding unit can hold 180 bottles of wine and comes in an attractive stainless steel finish.

Best selling commercial tall wine fridge - SWISSCAVE WLB-460DF-MIX

A brilliantly designed full height wine cooler with dual temperature zones that allows the whole fridge to be used for service or storage thanks to the carbon filters. The full stack shelving means no searching for bottles for busy wait staff making this, very attractive wine cooler, a winner in busy restaurants.

Best selling full height wine maturation cabinet - LA SOMMELIERE CTV249

A glass fronted, attractive, single zone cabinet for the long term maturation of fine wine. This tall fridge, from La Sommeliere, is popular due to its large capacity, lock and winter function.

Best selling built-in tall wine fridge - SWISSCAVE WL455DF

This keenly priced Swisscave dual zone looks stunning in any kitchen. A dual zone, this tall wine cooler is excellent for keeping reds, whites and Champagnes at the optimum temperature.

Best selling integrated tall wine fridge - DUNAVOX SOUL DX-89.246TB

Dual zone, tall, integrated wine fridges are fairly rare with only about a half of dozen in our selection. The most popular of these is from the kitchen experts, Dunavox; the Soul DX-89.246TB. Raised off the ground and integrated into a kitchen design like an integrated oven, these units add flair to designer kitchens all over Europe.