Avanti Wine Coolers Reviews

My wine cooler was purchased less than 3 years ago and has broken. When I contact Avanti, they refer me to several Avanti repair companies. When I contact those companies they don’t even service Avanti and have no idea what I am talking about. I need this fixed or it can just be thrown out at the dump.

I have had this cooler for about 5 years. It is a dual unit with two control modules and four fans. I have replaced both control modules and fans at least 5 times. It is noisy and never has shown the proper temperature on the LED screen. It gave out the other day ... again (control module) and I am not going to junk it. Looks nice but is a piece of JUNK. I would give it no stars if that options was available.

This fridge lasted exactly 14 month and was already serviced once under warranty. The fridge will not go below 60 degrees anymore and Avanti was very very rude on the phone saying it's only 1 year and pretty much said too bad. Spend money on something better as all the reviews that are over a year old speak for themselves. Worst support and service I have ever received.

Do not waste your money on any Avanti Wine Cooler. I had a new Avanti Wine cooler in my newly remodeled kitchen and after 6 months it stopped working. Called Avanti and received the worse customer service. It was bad. Basically told they couldn’t help me nor could they provide a referral for a referral for a repair service. I located a local repair company and $312 later the wine cooler worked for 2 weeks. On the third week it stopped working again. Repair company came back and told me it would cost me more to repair than to buy a new one. The total loss was over $1000... Do not buy Avanti products.

I bought my Avanti 40 bottle wine cooler in 2003, and has been in continuous use since. It has been stuffed with bottles, and I've never had a problem. The configuration is not the greatest, but temperature and service has delivered. I know there are plenty of negative reviews, so maybe the newer units are not "up to snuff."

Hello, I’ve got the Avanti wine chiller SWC2801, and I don’t know why, I can’t touch the screen. I’ve read already that could be locked but I can’t unlock either, in fact I don’t know how that works. My panel works when I take the plug off and reset, like that works a little. I can put less temperature or more but the number always go to the last one. I don’t know why.

The new wine cooler we purchased for our home did not work upon arrival. It took several weeks to get the 1 approved Avanti repair company in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area to come and diagnosis the problem. I had to keep calling the repair company and finally Avanti decided that it was a Freon leak and that they would replace the unit. That was six weeks ago. The current date for getting the replacement cooler is somewhere around 12/21. Every time they are contacted the date moves out 1 or 2 weeks. If I do indeed get the unit at the end of December, that will be over 3 months with no working unit. Avanti should be ashamed of the horrible lack of service, urgency and communication with its customers. I will never purchase anything from Avanti again!

Just purchased a new home that has the Avanti Dual Zone wine chiller (WCF1543SD). We are the first owners of this unit and were the first to turn it on. The home was vacant until we purchased it. The unit has never held a bottle of wine. So when we turned it on you could hear the compressor running so we waited until it cooled to put anything in it. Problem is it never cooled and an ERROR message appeared on the device (HH). This message indicated that the unit was running HOT. So we called Abt in Chicago where the appliance was purchased and paid $82.00 for them to come to look at it. The service technician who inspected the unit from Abt indicated it has a leaky compressor and had seal system Issue. He suggested calling Avanti for service because Abt does not service this unit due to the coolant used (R600).

I purchased the 149 bottle WCR1496SZ (Avanti Wine Chiller) less than 2 years ago for approx. $1500. It recently stopped chilling and shows a code "9.7" when on Fahrenheit. I called Avanti and they told me they don't have any knowledge of what that code would mean and suggested a local service company (who no longer repairs Avanti products). They did not seem to care a whole lot about the situation. The cost of someone coming out to look at it is over $700. I would think that a product of this cost would last more than 2 years, but it didn't. I will never buy a product from them again and being in the hotel/restaurant business will make it known to all what poor quality their products are. Do not buy these would be my recommendation.

We have owned this wine cooler for 3 or 4 years. It suddenly heated the top part of the unit to 99 degrees and we can't get it to change. I'm less than impressed with this unit. Although, after carefully reviewing all others available there are few that meet our expectations. Time to get another one. Hopefully one that works!