Help - my wine fridge is making lots of noise

[Daver6]

It must be wine fridge time when I'm thinking water and type CO2

Go get some C2H6O into you!

 

[juddles]

...mounts and vibrating ....

that is what I was thinking - noise usually comes from vibration, which means something is loose.

As for all the other comments about humidity and temperature, if you were a true wine enthusiast you would not own a "wine fridge" - you would actually move to somewhere like where I live - Medellin, Colombia - the "city of eternal spring".

Nature is your wine cooler

 

[Legoman]

I should add, I haven't bought anything with a cork for a while

This was my first thought too. When was the last time you even saw a bottle of wine with a cork in it? I do note however that restaurants are still clinging limpet-like to their "corkage" charges. I wonder how well that's going to continue with new generations who have never seen a cork and have no knowledge of the origin of the term.

But then I thought genuine wine collectors might/should/probably do have old wines with corks in them, so humidity control is a valid consideration for them. But then I thought vintage wines to be stored long term like that would not need, indeed probably should not be constantly chilled in a cooler as such. Finally I realised I don't know enough about the subject or hobby, so probably shouldn't comment at all.

 

[Legoman]

I live - Medellin, Colombia

I just started watching the second season of Narcos last night!

 

[Daver6]

This was my first thought too. When was the last time you even saw a bottle of wine with a cork in it? I do note however that restaurants are still clinging limpet-like to their "corkage" charges. I wonder how well that's going to continue with new generations who have never seen a cork and have no knowledge of the origin of the term.

But then I thought genuine wine collectors might/should/probably do have old wines with corks in them, so humidity control is a valid consideration for them. But then I thought vintage wines to be stored long term like that would not need, indeed probably should not be constantly chilled in a cooler as such. Finally I realised I don't know enough about the subject or hobby, so probably shouldn't comment at all.

Last week when I opened a 2010 Rockford Moppa Springs. Most European wine is still under cork too. Any plenty of people drink champagne which is all under cork.

There are two types of wine fridges. One that keeps your whites chilled at drinking temperature and one that's meant to mimic cellar conditions. I think the latter is what most people are referring to here. That's exactly where you want to keep your wine long term.

 

[TomVexille]

.... When was the last time you even saw a bottle of wine with a cork in it?

Saturday

Edit: Saturday was the last time I drank a bottle with a cork in it. I'm looking at a bottle now.

 

[AnonymousCoward]

This was my first thought too. When was the last time you even saw a bottle of wine with a cork in it? I do note however that restaurants are still clinging limpet-like to their "corkage" charges. I wonder how well that's going to continue with new generations who have never seen a cork and have no knowledge of the origin of the term.

Most European wine is still under cork. Some Australian stuff is still bottled under cork (especially if it's for export) or cork variants (like Diam). Even Australian stuff for domestic consumption is sometime bottled under cork: I've picked up Grange, Yalumba Octavius, Katnook Odyssey/Prodigy, Standish wines etc. this year that are all still under cork.

But then I thought genuine wine collectors might/should/probably do have old wines with corks in them, so humidity control is a valid consideration for them. But then I thought vintage wines to be stored long term like that would not need, indeed probably should not be constantly chilled in a cooler as such.

Most wine fridges are designed to run at optimal cellaring temperatures (12-16 degrees) not for chilling wine for drinking (though there are some, like the dual temperature zone fridges, you can use for that)

 

[BettyB]

As I understood it, there are two main issues with compressor based fridges for wine storage. Humidity control and vibrations. Can compressor based units overcome this?

Not for vibrations.

 

[eric2011]

I thought my wine fridge was playing up as it wasn't getting the wine cold....then I realised I was drinking it too quick

 

[Legoman]

Not for vibrations.

Vibrations can be minimised to such an extent you'd be very hard pressed to tell whether the thing is running or not. It might require some easy DIY mods to improve the mounting insulation, but if it really annoys you that much, you'll do it. My bar fridge is located where the main TV is too and any noise is very distracting, so I went the extra mile with it like I was fitting out a submarine. You'd have to kneel down and stick your head against it now to tell when the compressor is or is not running. This is at least a 25 y.o. fridge too, so I wasn't beginning from some very modern, high tech starting point either.