Whynter BWR-281DZa 28 Bottle Dual Temperature Zone Built-in Wine Refrigerator, Black-46-Bottle, Black

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1. Shield of Brünnhilde Verified Buyer – 5 March 2024

   This has been running this since the holidays and it’s been perfect. The dimensions were true to size and fit nicely in our cabinet. Blended in nicely with our new oak cabinets. It’s exactly the size of 2 trash compactor spaces (24″ in total width) and is built as a front venting in cabinet unit. Big heavy door with and nice smooth handle. I had a 15″ unit may years ago and this is a big upgrade with the gliding shelves and dual cooling areas. The clean light colored wood trim makes this very posh. It cools almost true to the displayed temp (I monitored it using an additional thermometer for about 2 weeks). Once I had it installed it’s as quiet as my KitchenAid fridge and looks great in the rebuilt kitchen.

   Update 6/1/2015
   Working perfectly. Very pleased with it to date.
   

2. A. Snowden Verified Buyer – 16 July 2024

   We looked at wine fridges for months. My husband’s old electronic one died. We wanted one with a compressor, wood shelves, not the wire junk and one we could put anywhere, whether in the kitchen or sunroom. It’s in the sunroom, makes very little noise and love the dual zones. The only downside was the delivery, which was less than stellar. I chose 4p-7p and they showed up at 1:45p. Of course no one was home. I was across town and my neighbors all work. I ended up having them drive the fridge to my office and the next day I had to bring our truck to work to bring it home. But, since I’m rating the fridge itself no sense in downgrading the quality of the fridge. We’ve only had it a week and look forward to many years of buying and storing wine!
   

3. john Verified Buyer – 13 August 2024

   This unit, while loud, cooled very well for 21 months. After that point, it wouldn’t cool at all. The wood and steel look is very nice, but it doesn’t make up for the fact that this fridge didn’t even last two years. This fridge is great if you A. don’t want it to cool anything or B. only need your beverages cooled for a few months. Garbage.
   

4. PaulyWolly Verified Buyer – 6 March 2025

   Seems to be working just fine. Keeps my reds at 51 and whites at 41. Temperature DOES NOT fluctuate at all. Rock Solid so far.
   

5. Badmofo Verified Buyer – 8 March 2025

   This product is not a quality build product. The wine refrigerator is noisy, the door is crooked, and the bottom door piece was missing a screw. Buy a different manufacturer.
   

6. M. Tucker Verified Buyer – 11 March 2025

   Have had this unit for about three weeks. Some pros but mostly cons here…

   Pros: It’s a very nice looking unit. The wood drawers blend very well with the hardwood cabinets in our kitchen.

   Cons: Not sure if this particular unit is defective but it is noisy, noisy, noisy! Very easy to hear in the living room adjacent to our kitchen.

   Temperature in the lower zone has fluctuated wildly. During some hours it will read 58 degrees while other times it read 67 degrees.

   This one is going back…
   

7. Anonymous Verified Buyer – 15 March 2025

   Don’t buy this wine cooler. We have had ours a little over 3 years and it’s done. Tried to contact Whynter and they do not supply parts. Want us to ship all the way to California $220 plus new compressor $300 plus and then charge to ship back. They have a deal! They know no one will pay to do all that. You Can buy a new one cheaper. Hate the fact you can not find good products that last anymore. And businesses that just don’t care .
   

8. Anonymous Verified Buyer – 23 March 2025

   We ordered this for our new kitchen. I strongly recommend purchasing something like this elsewhere. By the time we set this fridge up and had it running for awhile, we were past the 1 month return window for idealwinecoolers.com. We loved it when we first set it up. Looked great. Drawers were a bit stiff. Thought it would loosen up but it hasn’t yet. We noticed that it was a bit louder than we would have wanted but it looked so good and it was full of wine! Then is got really loud! We turned off the fan. Now the compressor is crazy loud. Had to turn it off altogether!! idealwinecoolers.com will not take it back so we now have to deal with the manufacturer. Like I said…idealwinecoolers.com may not be the best place for this purchase.
   

9. William Dwan Verified Buyer – 9 April 2025

   I just bought this at Home Depot and this is the review I posted there. I’m passing this on in the hopes that you don’t make my same mistake… * The shelves do not pull out far enough and the front shelf lips too tall to be able to remove the rear bottles. I saber saw cut down the front lip to about 1/2 the height. (Except for the top shelf in the lower section; that one was deep enough to get the rear bottles out.) See Pic below. * NORMAL bottles closest to the shelf slides grind and catch along the rails. The shelves get practically stuck and the bottle labels get ripped off. I chiseled and sanded away the wooden slats to get the bottles to sit down farther. Pain in the axx, took all afternoon, but working now. See Pic below. * Champagne bottles will ONLY fit in two of the bottom section shelves. Unfortunately, I keep the top colder for whites, and drink more reds (bottom, warmer section). * As designed out of the box, NO WAY you can fill up this wine fridge and use it normally. They’re packed in so tightly you have to remove several bottles to get the rear ones out. After my surgery on the shelf fronts, I still only put 7, not 8 bottles, on a shelf — a little bit of bottle shuffling required to get rear bottles out, but I can live with that. * I STRONGLY recommend going to a brick and mortar place to really see, feel, and test drive the fridge WITH bottles (wild idea, huh?). Unfortunately, I trusted the reviews. I am now HIGHLY suspicious of these reviews — as you should be of my opinions here. Buy it from whomever you want, but don’t expect them to have actually verified that the product will work. * There. My work is done. If you buy this product, or any other, without first checking it out, and relying solely on reviews, then be it on your head. * First pic: corners of slats cut down to lower the bottle enough to slide the shelf in and out. * Second pic: all but one shelf had to be cut down to be able to get the rear bottles out.

   

10. Scott David Patton Verified Buyer – 23 April 2025

    The unit worked fine for about 4-5 months and then started to not cool properly. We contacted the service department who attempted to trouble shot the problem via email for several weeks. In the end, they were not able to resolve the issue. They authorized a return to them and they would either repair or replace. The only issue is that with packing and shipping I will need to spend $390 to “repair” a $750 unit as I live in Chicago and the company is in California. I asked if they would simply provide a new unit at a discounted price to save everyone time and expense the reply was no.

    Now I have a wine cooler that does not work and no local repair companies can work on the unit. Stuck with a bad unit unless I risk spending another $390. Be cautious.