Prestige Redford Climate-Controlled Cabinet with Cachet Jar Case — Dark Cherry

There is a particular problem this cabinet solves: you want proper climate control, but the thing has to live in a room people sit in. The Redford is a powered storage cabinet in dark cherry with embossed wood side panels and crown moulding, so it reads as furniture rather than as a machine with a glass front. Behind that, a touchscreen-controlled heating, cooling and humidification system holds up to 1,250 cigars or equivalent storage. A Cachet glass jar case is included.

Who it suits

Suited to a home collector who wants the cabinet in a study, dining room or lounge and cares how it looks there. The traditional detailing earns its place beside older joinery and looks out of step in a stark modern room, where the black oak Redford Lite is the closer match. Capacity is quoted as cigars or equivalent storage, so it serves anyone storing humidity-sensitive material that wants a damp environment. If you buy by the box, size up.

Climate control

A passive humidor cannot correct itself: it follows the room, and you chase it with a hygrometer. This cabinet does the opposite. Dual cooling and heating systems plus electronic humidification drive the interior toward a set point you enter on the touchscreen, and hold it there in July and in January alike.

• Temperature 41°F–71°F. The 65°F to 70°F band most collectors aim for falls near the top of that range but comfortably inside it, with a long reach downward for anything you want held colder.
• Humidity 56%–78%. A 65% to 70% target sits in the middle. Read the bottom of the range before you buy: 56% is the floor, so this is a cabinet for material that needs moisture, not one that will keep anything dry.
• Touchscreen digital control. Temperature and humidity are set on the panel rather than by dial, which makes small adjustments precise and repeatable.
• De-mist function. Cool, humid interior air meeting warm room air across a pane produces condensation on the inside of the door. It is physics, not a defect, showing up most in summer or right after the door has been open. De-mist clears it.
• Auxiliary fan. Still air separates into layers, leaving one shelf wetter than another. The fan circulates the interior so the sensor reading reflects the whole cabinet, and so no corner sits damp enough to grow mould.

Capacity in the real world

The 1,250 figure assumes loose single cigars packed across four shelves and the tray with dividers pushed wide. It is a ceiling, not a plan. Load in boxes and the honest expectation is around half, sometimes less, because each box carries dead air above the cigars and boxes will not pack against one another. Cabinet-selection sticks and large ring gauges reduce the count for the same reason. The working layout is four drawer-style shelves on metal slides with one removable tray and adjustable dividers; lifting the tray out buys height for tall boxes. Treat this as planning guidance for your own inventory.

Build and finish

Dark cherry over embossed wood side panels, finished with crown moulding at the top; that detailing is why the cabinet sits comfortably next to real furniture. The trays are cedar-lined, and cedar does work rather than decoration: it absorbs and releases moisture as conditions shift, buffering the interior between humidification cycles, and it is long credited with discouraging tobacco beetle. The door is tempered tinted glass with a heavy-duty seal. The seal decides how hard the climate system has to work, so keep it clean and the cabinet level. The tint cuts glare, but no ultraviolet rating is published for the glass, so keep the cabinet out of direct sun. White LED lighting runs across all shelves, cool enough that it does not load the cooling system.

The included Cachet jar case

The jar case is not a novelty box. It is a separate, smaller climate for material you do not want sitting in the main cabinet. Four 3 oz glass jars sit in a fully enclosed mahogany wood interior with a natural finish, and each jar has an adjustable ventilated top.

Those ventilated tops are the point. Sealed, a glass jar isolates completely, which is what you want for anything strongly aromatic, because aroma migrates between anything sharing air and one pungent item will mark everything near it. Open the vent and the jar equalises with the humidified air inside the case, so its contents ride at the case's conditions instead of slowly drying in a sealed jar. Because each top adjusts independently, one case can hold four things at four different rates of exchange: something resting undisturbed, something being brought up to humidity gradually, something kept sealed off from the rest.

A small volume is a volatile one: three ounces of air has almost no moisture reserve, so it swings every time the lid opens. That is what the clear polymer crystal humidifier is for. The crystals release moisture as the enclosed air dries and take it back as humidity rises, damping the swings the way cedar does in the big cabinet, and a magnetic back holds it to the case rather than letting it roll among the contents. There is a compartment for tools and accessories, and a lock and key set.

Specifications

Setting it up

The following is general practice for a cedar-lined climate cabinet. Read the manufacturer's manual before you start; it governs this unit.

• Season before loading. New cedar is dry and will draw moisture from whatever you put beside it. Season the interior first with distilled water only, and give it several days to reach a steady reading.
• Distilled or reverse-osmosis water only. Tap water leaves mineral scale that clogs the humidification system over time. The same rule applies to the jar case humidifier.
• Placement. Interior wall, out of direct sun, away from radiators, heat vents and A/C exhaust. Leave clearance behind and around the cabinet so the system can exhaust heat instead of drawing it back in.
• Level footing. The door only seals if the cabinet sits square. Check both axes before loading, and again once it is full.
• Power. Runs on 110/120V, with a 220/240V version available on request.
• Load in stages. Let the empty cabinet hold its set point for a few days first, then add stock gradually. A full load dumped into a newly seasoned cabinet takes far longer to settle than most people expect.

Delivery

The cabinet ships by freight rather than parcel carrier because of its size and weight, arriving crated on a pallet via an LTL service. Freight delivery is normally kerbside, so the driver leaves it at the end of the driveway. Plan the route first and measure doorways, hallway turns and any stairwell against the 26" × 26" × 52¾" cabinet, allowing extra for the crate. Inspect it before signing and record any damage on the paperwork at the time.

Common questions

Does the jar case need power?

No. It is a passive box: the crystal humidifier holds and releases moisture on its own, with no electrics and nothing to plug in. That is why it can sit on a desk or travel between rooms while the cabinet stays where its outlet is.

Can I store boxes in the cabinet?

Yes, and the drawer-style shelves with adjustable dividers make it straightforward. Adjust your expectations rather than your shelves, though: boxes carry dead air, so plan on roughly half the rated 1,250 figure, and less again if the boxes are deep.

Is there any plumbing to connect?

None. Humidification is self-contained and refilled by hand, so the cabinet needs a power outlet and nothing else. No drain, no water line, no condensate pipe to route, which is what makes it practical in a living room.

Will it hold up in a garage or unheated room?

It is built for conditioned indoor space. In an unheated garage the system fights ambient temperature continuously, and a hard freeze or a heatwave can carry the interior outside what it can pull back. Keep it inside the heated part of the house.

How is this different from the Redford Lite?

Same 1,250 rated capacity and the same four drawer-style shelves. This is the larger carcass at 26" × 26" × 52¾" against the Lite's 25" × 24" × 52", it adds embossed side panels and crown moulding, and it is controlled by touchscreen where the Lite uses push buttons.