Personally, I think Perlick is the best bev frig you can get. Prices are high. I suggest you email Scott at Perlick and inquire about a Factory 2nd. That's how I got mine, you will see a great savings. MIne has a little dent on the upper left side. Kind of hard to notice since it is built in!

I put a lot of GWers in touch with him after I found this great information!

Here's a link to the page, they have more than what is listed. But email him, tell him Karen V from PA "sent you". He is great to work with.

Bee

Here is a link that might be useful: Perlick's factory Seconds

I looked at the Perlick 18" but then realized that the 25"+ depth of most wine fridges is due to the fact that the handle sticks out. If you get a model with a recessed handle, then the fridge is a bit less than 24." Will that difference work for you? If so, I think that your two choices are Miele and U-line, with U-line being half the price of the Miele.

Bee, thanks so much for the great info! Hope we can work one into our plan.

Nycbluedevil, at this point it seems like we'd really need something less than 20" deep to have a chance of fitting it in - but plans are not finalized (at all!), so I'll definitely keep your insight in mind - thank you & for the U-line/Miele thoughts also.

I have Perlick fridge drawers and have to agree with Bee. It was more than we were hoping to spend for a beverage fridge, but we were sold on the quality when looking at them and reading the specs. At the time, there were a couple of others here who had good things to say about them or we wouldn't have gone looking for them. They were known at that time for commercial refrigeration and our appliance folks had never installed them. After we got ours, they replaced other units in a sky box at one of the sports venues here where there was constant use, the unit couldn't keep up and the customer of an expensive job was not happy. The Perlick made them happy.

We are coming up on 6 years wit them. Is that possible? Anyway, still one of the better choices we made. I didn't know they had 18" depth options now, but I'm sure the quality will be the same.

We're having a 24" Perlick beverage center put into our new kitchen shortly. I'd never heard of them before looking at the appliance forum but when I saw a nice floor model for $1100 at a warehouse sale, we went for it. If you don't need it right away, you might be able to save some $$ and get a floor model like we did.

Lascatx and Rainwood, I really appreciate your posting your experiences w/ the Perlick stuff - lascatx, had to laugh at your "Is it possible?" comment; so true! If I had thought 16 yrs. ago when we moved into our house that it would take THIS LONG to get to the kitchen, I would have either run out shrieking or decided that was just not possible - HAH!! Time flies & life happens.

Rainwood, congrats on your impending installation! And thanks for the $-saving advice - may I ask where you purchased?