Growing up means saying "I'll never have a wine cellar."

That wine cellar you’ve been building in your mind? Fill it with those novels you never wrote and those instruments you never learned to play. Park your 1956 Austin-Healey 100 in there. Might as well throw in your astronaut suit and that wedding ring you would have bought for George Clooney and/or Catherine Zeta-Jones (no matter how much time passes, we both know they’re never going to age down into your league). Then board the whole thing up and start thinking about realistic alternatives.

One of those realistic alternatives is this Wine Enthusiast Silent 8-Bottle Refrigerator. It’s a compact countertop unit for those without a wine cellar, or even a basement. Crank it down for chilled whites, or up for perfect reds. Either way, you won’t hear or feel a thing. Its thermoelectric cooling system uses pairs of semiconductors, so unlike compressor-based refrigeration systems, this fridge won’t vibrate all the flavor out of the wines. And it won’t leak nasty CFCs into the environment, either.

There’s nothing wrong with dreaming. Have fun imagining yourself strolling through the dark, cool aisles of your wine cellar, selecting the perfect bottle, Catherine/George waiting upstairs for a very special farewell dinner before you leave on your mission to teach jazz xylophone to the royal family of Mars. Then come back to the real world. Pour yourself a glass of perfectly cooled wine from your Wine Enthusiast Silent 8-Bottle Refrigerator. And realize that real life isn’t so bad, either.