- Designed with six slide-out wood wine racks for a unique look that allows you to easily access your wine collection
- Features digital controls, which allow you to adjust the temperature to ensure your wine is stored correctly
- Convenient dual zone system allows you to store up to 21 bottles of wine at their optimum temperature
- Offers a unique stainless steel door trim design & sleek silver handle to flatter any deco
Second unit lasted 4 months before bottom portion stopped keeping temperature, instead drifting to coolest temp possible. Returned and paid for shipping.
Third unit lasted 6 months before bottom portion stopped keeping temperature, instead drifting to coolest temp possible. Air & Water says they only do warranty repairs within 12 months of original purchase date. While I have only had this unit 6 months their offer to me a measly 12% off the purchase of a NEW unit.
These guys are selling cheap junk and they know it. This wine cooler is not built to last. Don't waste your time with this cooler or Air & Water.
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I've had this unit about 2 years. The bottom portion has quit working and sits at room temperature. It was a free replacement of an earlier NewAir product that also quit working after about 14 months. To their credit, NewAir made the swap even though the unit was out of warranty. I've been trying to figure out whether I've been unlucky or this is pretty much the normal expectation for units like this. Another reviewer here had worse luck than me, and some discussions on low-cost wine coolers like this suggest that they really don't last long. One site says, "most wine refrigerators are notoriously unreliable, you'll be lucky if it lasts 5 years much less 10."I'm a bit puzzled by this, I have a small compressor-driver refrigerator (not for wine) running constantly and very quietly for 7 years with no issues. The thermoelectric units with no moving parts (except the fan) is billed as more energy efficient, lower in vibration and with less to go wrong, except they seem to go wrong rather frequently. They both went bad in the summer, when temps inside the house can rise to over 80 degrees F. That may be the issue right there, it may be just too much temperature difference for the unit. Another site advises, "thermoelectric coolers are limited in that they can generally only produce temperatures about 20°F lower than the temperature outside the unit. Compressor-based cooling does not have the same limitation." I had this unit installed in a small alcove in my pantry with a fan than constantly exhausts the heat to the outside.
Specific beef about this model; you have to pull out the bottle rack to remove a bottle. You can't do that unless you swing the door open very wide, a drawback if your space is restricted.
The real question is, should you be bothering to buy a product like this at all if you aren't willing to replace it every couple of years?This dual zone wine fridge is perfect for apartment living. It is compact enough to fit in a limited space but provides enough slots in the racks for 1.5 cases of wine. The only glitch keeping it from 5 stars is the difficulty getting fat bottomed wine bottles into and out of the racks. You have to pull the bottle forward before trying to slide the rack out to take a bottle out and you have to pull the rack out to put a bottle in.The only reason I gave it 4 stars was that the storage area for the white wine bottles is too small for the larger chardonnay bottle formats.
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