GERMANY – The iF Design Award 2023 has gone to the K08 hinge from Hettch with integrated soft closing Silent System for wine refrigerators.

Sommeliers have long recommended professional wine refrigerators for providing wine with optimum storage, and true wine enthusiasts know: enjoying fine wines starts with the wine refrigerator.

The professional storage of high-quality wines is crucial for quality and taste experience: Ideally, the bottles are stored vibration-free in a dark place with constant temperature and controlled humidity. With the K08 hinge there is a hinge on the market now that responds to the needs of the wine itself, is perfectly matched visually to the elegant wine cooler design and also offers a high level of operating convenience. The integrated damping function in the hinge ensures a slowed, controlled, soft closing of the wine refrigerator door, which prevents the appliance and thus the wine from being shaken or vibrated.

What's more, the user friendly hinge gives the wine refrigerator door a wide opening angle so that shelves holding the wine bottles can be pulled out all the way. This makes the right bottle of wine easy to choose and provides quick access. Coming in a dark, elegant look, the hinge blends inconspicuously into the predominantly dark finished design of wine refrigerators.