The simple answer is no! Even on its lowest setting a fridge is going to be
too cold.
There are wine cabinets holding small numbers on the market for £300 ish I
would have thought
(but..are you SURE you only want to hold 70??!!)

there's a good article on choosing the type of unit on decanter's website -
see this archive piece
(you'll need to register to read it)

http://www.decanter.com/archive/47859.html

if price is important the units by fridge manufacturers (liebherr, miele)
are cheaper than Eurocave et al.

Johnners


"Den" > wrote in message
...
> Hi Group
>
> Southern Calif here!
>
> We're thinking of buy a wine refrigerator to hold about 70 bottles of wine
> in our house.
>
> We'll be using it for wine that will be drunk over the course of (say) a
> year. I.e. this wine refrigerator won't be used for long term storage of
> good wine, rather as a store for the everyday stuff, and a storage
location
> for the good stuff that comes out of long term storage climate controlled
> storage.
>
> All of the wine 'fridges that we've seen seem to be exceptionally highly
> priced (understandable given the market!), and have so many whizz-bang
> features that we just don't need, and so (particularly as we're not too
> worried about the aesthetics of the 'fridge.) I was wondering about the
> practicality of using an ordinary domestic refrigerator set on its warmest
> setting.
>
> Has anyone any experience of this / thoughts on the matter?
>
> Are we likely to have issues with humidity?
>
> Cheers
>
> Den
>
>