I would be curious to see if the cooler has that much of an internal swing in temps. Our cellar runs +/- 2C such that the bottles won't change in temp before the unit kicks on again. I hold the cellar at 14-16C. The cooling unit can do as low as 12 and as high as 18C.
Your experiment to put a probe through a cork into a bottle and measure high and low max values is sound. Test at both the top and bottom racks as well.
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