Product Description

Haier HVTM12DABB 12 Bottle Dual Zone Freestanding Wine Cooler - glass door / black trim. The Haier Dual Zone 12 Bottle Wine Cooler is perfect for storing your fine wine collection. It is big enough to hold wine for all of your guests, but space conscious enough to be out of the way. Features ultra-quiet, highly efficient thermoelectric cooling, perfect for both red and white wines. This translates to less noise, less vibrations, and a safe place to store your favorite wines until you are ready to enjoy them. This compact wine cooler comes with 4 chrome wire storage racks for up to 12 bottles of wine, a double insulated amber tinted glass door and an adjustable thermostat providing easy touch screen temperature control for each compartment (Upper: 52-64 degrees Fahrenheit/Lower: 45-54 degrees Fahrenheit). The HVTM12DABB Haier wine cooler features a black finish and soft interior lighting that puts your collection on display for a sophisticated look. Wine cooler dimensions: (20-inch diameter, 10-inch width, 24-inch height).

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4141 in Major Appliances
• Color: Black
• Brand: Haier
• Model: HVTM12DABB
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 20.00" h x 24.00" w x 10.00" l, 30.80 pounds

Features

• Up to 12 bottle capacity, dual zone
• Vibration-free, ultra quiet thermal electric cooling
• Perfect for both red and white wine
• Double pane amber-tinted glass door with black trim/black cabinet
• Dual touch screen controls with 2 led displays; independently adjust temperature 45-54 degrees fahrenheit upper compartment, 52-64 degrees fahrenheit lower

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent wine cellar
By Aktiver Arzt
I bought this Haier wine cellar after my Cuisinart broke just one year into its use (it was a wedding gift and otherwise would not have been our first choice). As soon as you unpack the product, the Haier wine cellar looks and sounds a lot more "clean cut" than the Cuisinart, with a sleek black exterior, more pronounced lighting, and a quieter cooling system. Overall the impression is of a well designed product. The unit is very easy to use, I only read the manual to make sure I kept the appropriate distance from walls. One caveat for all potential buyers to know is the fact that this is not designed to be a built-in unit! So make sure you have free standing space. I will update this review after a few weeks of use, but thus far I am very happy with the product, especially considering the price.

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It's been almost two wee ks now since I received this unit, and I am still very impressed. The fan is very quiet and does not disturb me at all. I wonder if users who report loud fan noises either have a defective unit, or a fan with lots of dust collected around it. I've had my A/C malfunction for two days and the unit did not become any louder than before while still cooling the wine to the indicated temperature.
The full beauty of having a wine fridge with two different temperature zones became apparent when we bought a mixed crate of wine. Being able to store reds and whites in such close proximity but at equally well-adjusted temperatures is wonderful when hosting guests since our unit is in reaching-distance of the dining table (the Cuisinart was a bit of an eye sore, so we had to hide it in the pantry, but the Haier looks nice enough to keep out in the open).
The front panel does tend to collect fingerprints, especially since it is glossy black, but this is a payoff with all shiny-b lack products and not unique to the Haier wine fridge. The unit is easy to clean and does not require any special cleaning needs.

The unit is still deserving my 5-star rating at this point. I will update the review, should any issues arise.

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
Wish I'd seen this one before
By James Acosta
My friends:

I am a very busy person and, although I'm a fervent believer in sharing and reviewing with other consumers, I don't get around to doing so as much as I would like. This time, I forced myself to do this. Throughout the years shopping at Amazon, I have come to rely on people like you to provide their honest, unbiased feedback on products, which products I will either purchase or not based on the information provided.

So here it is ... this wine cellar arrives in a well-packaged, cushioned box (this is always a good sign for me!); none of those shabby, flimsy boxes that are barely held together by plastic tie raps, and with Chinese characters and markings from all over the planet ...

The tinted glass w/ black trim and black cabinet makes for a very elegant look, conveying a more expensive, refined appearance that belies its price. This unit is truly quiet, and quick to respond to room temperature changes, or user settings. The 1 2-bottle capacity (6 and 6) is really adequate for me, and I think for most people other than the well-to-do rich and shameless or oenophiles. One of the nicest features, which I did not have in my last wine cooler, is the dual zone compartments with different temperature ranges each to accommodate reds and whites. The unit is fairly light weight, and has sub-minimal vibration. The electronics in the back look very similar to the pcba (printed circuit board) in my last wine cooler that I purchased from Wine Enthusiast much to my regret later. Said unit was supposedly rated best by the wine experts at the Wall Street Journal. I relied on their advice, unfortunately, and had all kinds of issues with the unit. It would not cool down to its lower range except in the winter months (I live in Florida), and -- compared to this Haier cellar, it was rather noisy. Careful with purchasing wine coolers in this price range from said vendor. Now back to the unit in question ...
The digital temperature readouts are blue, and are soothing to look at. The interior light is nice, although it does not shine on the lower compartment (for white wines) very well. As I said, even though the circuitry is very similar, the Performance of this unit is Much, much better. I have had the unit for a month and a half now. It has a year's warranty, and a clear, simple instruction manual. I don't recall where the unit was made at this moment. I believe it was either Mexico, or Malaysia. I will confirm that later. Overall, Im pleased with this wine cellar, and relieved that it has met my strict expectations ...

Hope this review is of help to you.

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Good Value
By Sandy
Received our cooler over a week ago. The unit ships well packaged... both in the factory box (styrofoam padding) and an outer box with thick bubble wrap. We set the cooler up in our dining room, and are pleased with the aesthetics of the design. Further, we were surprised at how quickly it cooled down to the set temperatures, but then we only loaded two bottles in each of the zones (we added more bottle over the course of several days).

Sound level - no problem with our cooler. The only sound is that made by the fans, which I would describe as similar to computer fans if not less. This model uses a thermal electric cooler, which means there is no compressor, and thus no compressor sounds.

A note about thermal electric cooling - the cold temperatures that may be obtained are based on ambient room temperature. Performance will suffer if you plan on placing the unit in a warm/hot room. From the manual... For this model, when the ambient temperatu re is 77, the lowest temperature that can be reached is 50 - 52. When the ambient temperature is 73, the cabinet can reach approximately 46-48.

I placed this unit at 4 stars. The only knock is for performance in warm rooms, and the fact that the descriptions do not state these factors (important to know before making the purchase).