The end of my cellar - ワインセラーの末路

我が家のワインセラーEH-WS115が死んでしまった。元々安くて容量が大きかったので、あまり深く考えることもなくこの機種にしたのだが、寿命わずか3年。中国製で安売り店ルートの商品なので修理は期待薄かなと思う。ペルチェ方式もいささかもろかったし、流石にこの夏場は冷却力不足できびしかった。比較的涼しい1階に置いていたのだが、連日30度越えの猛暑には耐えられなかったのだろうか?こいつの末路、カミさんが屋外で収納ボックスに使おうかと言ってくれたのがせめてもの救い。
今回はまじめにいろんな製品の情報を読み漁ってみたが、長期保存目的のセラーでベストチョイスはドメティック社のCS32Dかフォルスター社のST-AF140だと結論づけたが、いずれも15万くらいかかる。そこまで奮発できなければ、同容量のコンプレッサー型を安く捜すことになる。ユーロカーヴにはキッチンシステムに埋込できる製品もあるが、費用はさらに2倍近い。
ワインの道楽はフェードアウトしようと考えているので、逆行する出費は避けたいのが本音だ。


The wine cellar in my home died. I chose this model, EH-WS115 without much thoughts simply because it had sufficient capacity for the money, but it was made in China and sold through discount stores, and I doubt it is practically serviceable. It claimed the Pertier cooler system but was rather fragile to last only 3 years. It evidently lacked the ability to cool against the extraordinary summer climate this year. I used it on the ground floor which is cooler in my home, but the temperature was constantly over 30 during the day this summer, and it probably failed to survive through the summer. My wife said to me that she might be able to use it as a storage box in the garden corner.
This time, I seriously looked into the information of various products as the successor, and the best options seemed Dometic CS32D or Folster ST-AF140, both around $1600 price range. If I cannot afford one of them, I have to look for a compressor model with roughly the same capacity for lower cost. I also saw an Eurocave model that can be built into the kitchen system, but it was almost twice more expensive.
My basic stance for this issue is to avoid unnecessary expense basically because the hobby of collecting wines itself is something that I think I should fade out sooner or later.