--- title: "Wine cellars" description: "JennAir wine cellars — undercounter cellars and full-height wine columns, most of them dual-zone and most of them panel-ready." url: "https://jennairmiami.support/appliances/wine-cellar/" date_modified: "2026-08-24" Appliance type: "Wine cellars" --- # JennAir wine cellars ### What this row is Undercounter wine cellars at 18 and 24 inches, and full-height wine columns, most of them dual-zone — two temperatures in one cabinet so reds and whites can be held separately — and most of them panel-ready, with a glass or a solid door depending on where they are installed. In this market they turn up in kitchens, in bar runs, in butler’s pantries and in wine rooms of their own. ### What we are called out for - **Drift.** One zone holding and the other creeping, which on a dual-zone cabinet usually points at a damper, a fan or a sensor rather than at the system. - **Airflow at the toe kick**, which is the first thing to look at on any undercounter unit and costs nothing to check: these cabinets breathe through the grille at the bottom, and a built-in surround that closed it up will do this. - **The condenser**, for the same reason and with the same symptom. - **Sensors**, which is what “the display says one thing and the bottles say another” comes down to. - **The door** — seal, alignment, hinge, and on a paneled door the panel hardware. - **Fan and compressor mounts**, where the complaint is noise or vibration rather than temperature. ### The second-home problem More of these cabinets than anyone would guess are in homes that are empty for months. A cellar that drifts in March is discovered in November, and by then the drift is the smaller half of the story. If a property of yours is unoccupied for part of the year, the cabinet is worth a look before the season rather than after it — and if it is on a smart connection, worth having the alerts go somewhere that is being read. ### What to have ready when you call The model number, whether it is single or dual zone, which zone is the problem, and what an independent thermometer inside the cabinet reads next to what the panel claims. Undercounter · Columns · Dual zone · Panel-ready · 18" · 24" Wine cellar repair One zone holding and the other drifting A cabinet that is cold enough and humming louder than it did Condensation on the glass, or on the bottles What this row is Undercounter wine cellars at 18 and 24 inches, and full-height wine columns, most of them dual-zone — two temperatures in one cabinet so reds and whites can be held separately — and most of them panel-ready, with a glass or a solid door depending on where they are installed. In this market they turn up in kitchens, in bar runs, in butler’s pantries and in wine rooms of their own. What we are called out for Drift. One zone holding and the other creeping, which on a dual-zone cabinet usually points at a damper, a fan or a sensor rather than at the system. Airflow at the toe kick, which is the first thing to look at on any undercounter unit and costs nothing to check: these cabinets breathe through the grille at the bottom, and a built-in surround that closed it up will do this. The condenser, for the same reason and with the same symptom. Sensors, which is what “the display says one thing and the bottles say another” comes down to. The door — seal, alignment, hinge, and on a paneled door the panel hardware. Fan and compressor mounts, where the complaint is noise or vibration rather than temperature. The second-home problem More of these cabinets than anyone would guess are in homes that are empty for months. A cellar that drifts in March is discovered in November, and by then the drift is the smaller half of the story. If a property of yours is unoccupied for part of the year, the cabinet is worth a look before the season rather than after it — and if it is on a smart connection, worth having the alerts go somewhere that is being read. What to have ready when you call The model number, whether it is single or dual zone, which zone is the problem, and what an independent thermometer inside the cabinet reads next to what the panel claims. ### It is two degrees off. Is that worth a service call? Yes, on this appliance more than on any other in the kitchen. A refrigerator two degrees off is an inconvenience; a cellar two degrees off, held for months, is a measurable change to what is in it. And two degrees is usually early — it is the symptom that arrives before the one that would have made you call anyway. ### Why does humidity matter as much as temperature? Because it shows on corks and labels long before it shows on a display. A cabinet holding a perfect temperature at the wrong humidity is not doing its job, and no panel on any of these machines reports humidity to you. It is one of the things we measure on the visit rather than ask you about. ### Is vibration a real problem or a myth? Real, and diagnosable. Constant low-level vibration transmitted into the racks is not what a compressor mount or a fan is supposed to do, and a cabinet that has started to hum or buzz differently has usually developed a mechanical reason for it. It is also one of the few problems on this appliance you can hear before an instrument can measure it, so if it sounds different, say so. ### The glass door is fogging on the outside. That is the room, not the cabinet — warm humid air meeting cold glass, which in a South Florida summer is exactly what should happen. What is worth checking is whether the door heater, if the model has one, is working, and whether the door is sitting square. Fogging on the inside is a different matter and does point at the seal or at how often the door is being opened. --- **[Read full article: Wine cellars](https://jennairmiami.support/appliances/wine-cellar/)**