DeLonghi DEWC46D Dual-Zone Wine Fridge Review
Reviewed by a winemaker. Owned since 2015. Still in daily use. I bought the DeLonghi DEWC46D in 2015 for NZ$999. And have no regrets. It's been a great investment. Keeping my wine in the best possible condidtion. At the time, I was living in a small central Auckland apartment. I had a large Liebherr GrandCru compressor cabinet at my parents' place in Queensland for serious long-term maturation. But needed something smaller for our appartment. Auckland summers don't get as hot as Queensland, but the appartment got hot enough for me not to feel comfortable keeping my wines at the ambient temperature. I needed something compact for the apartment. Somewhere to keep whites, rosé, and sparkling at serving temperature without occupying kitchen fridge space and also somewhere to keep a stash of wines at 'cellar' temperature. What I didn't fully appreciate when I bought it was that the DEWC46D is a proper dual-zone compressor wine cabinet — not a basic thermoelectri...
