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Brand: Waring
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$190.00~~
Buy New: $79.99

New (26) Used (1) Refurbished (2)

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

25 reviews
Sales Rank: 11189

Color: Black/Stainless
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Size: 1 Bottle
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6 x 9

MPN: PC100
Model: PC100
UPC: 040072006500
EAN: 0040072006500
ASIN: B000I14CA0

Release Date: September 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Customer Reviews:

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Not about efficiency, it's about maintaining the ideal temperature January 7, 2007
13 out of 14 found this review helpful

Got it as a gift for Xmas, and it's been by my side ever since, even bringing it on a road trip for New Year's! Its value is not its cooling efficiency; I'm not going to put a room temperature bottle of cava in the thing and expect it to get cold quickly. I'll still put that bottle in the freezer for a quick chill.

Instead, the value of this machine is that it finds and maintains the wine's OPTIMUM temperature it within a narrow band. Choose your wine (though the library is not comprehensive, you can always find an appropriate facsimilie), and it will get cooler until it reaches your setting's temperature. If you want white or sparkling wine, chill it first in the fridge (or freezer if you're in a rush), then plunk it in there and let if find the ideal temperature.

It's a fun, simple, and wine-enhancing gift. The difference in temperature makes a big difference in the pleasure of enjoying wine.

1 out of 5 stars

Didn't work as advertised January 2, 2007
28 out of 30 found this review helpful

Got one as a Christmas present - great concept, but the performance falls well short of the promise.

As another reviewer noted, wine from my wine fridge (56 deg.) registered as 74 deg. when placed into the unit; wine at room temp (72 deg.) regularly registered 78 deg. or so. Although the unit ran through it's cycle and indicated wine had been chilled to the proper temperature it never was. In fact, if you put the bottle back into the unit immediately and started it again it would register a temperature about 10 degrees warmer than it had indicated just seconds earlier.

I tried about half-a-dozen times over a couple days, but it never worked properly.

We returned the unit to the store for credit.

1 out of 5 stars

Do not buy this for wine that needs to be served chilled December 26, 2006
50 out of 51 found this review helpful

The problem isn't with the unit taking a long time to chill a bottle of wine, the problem is that it doesn't chill a bottle of wine.

I put a bottle of room temperature Chablis in, and selected Chablis from the list of white wines. The unit said it would chill it to 46 degrees, and indicated that the starting temp was 77. That was my first concern, because the bottle was room temperature, and room temp was 70. The unit took more than 30 minutes to get the bottle to the desired temp (according to the units thermostats), but when I opened the bottle, the wine was probably a bit warmer than a pinot should be served at. I turned the unit off, placed the bottle back in (using the accompanying sleeve both time, btw), and this time the starting temp read 61 degrees. In other words, it disagreed with itself...

Soo...I chilled it again, for another 20 minutes, and upon reaching 46 (again) the bottle was no cooler than it was before.

I don't understand how these are selling. They are probably good for bringing room temp reds down to the appropriate serving level, but this simply does not chill white, rose, or sparkling wines to the desired temperature. So it's great, I suppose, for someone who doesn't have a wine refrigerator, or a cellar, but who wants to drink red wines at the appropriate temperature. It's terrible for anything other than that.

This is as disappointed as I've ever been with a product before.

4 out of 5 stars

I enjoy mine. December 14, 2006
7 out of 10 found this review helpful

I don't have this brand. I was gifted another brand that starts with a "B". It looks the same, but costs a little more. I enjoy using it since I usually have a bottle at night. It keeps the temp right where you set it. It does take a while and I would suggest having your wine chilled already or be willing to wait 2 hours for it to come down in temp. Though, once I open a bottle it keeps it perfect temp for the next few hours that I might enjoy drinking it.

One complaint I have it large cham-pain bottles don't fit in the narrow hole. though I have not found a wine bottle that does not fit. If you don't want to mess with ice and water, I would suggest this unit. if you are looking for a rapid cooler 20 minutes in the freezer would work better.

Ultimatly, if this were to break, I would buy another one.
Cheers,
RS

5 out of 5 stars

A well thought out design November 21, 2006
19 out of 20 found this review helpful

I had been looking for a wine chiller that didn't require the addition of ice or water and that included some sort of automatic listing of wine temps...well, i found it. It was easy to use and my pinot noir came at the perfect temperature. I also tried it with some Asti and it cooled that down to a nice chilly temp. It recycles every time that the temp drops more than 3-5 degrees. My only complaint is that some of the lower temps take a long time to cool, otherwise, this is a great product!

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