--- title: "Wine fridges" description: "Liebherr wine fridge repair in Miami. The undercounter kind — not cooling, running constantly, warm at the top, noise that has changed. Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach." url: "https://liebherrmiami.support/appliances/wine-fridge/" date_modified: "2026-08-28" Appliance type: "Wine refrigeration" --- # Liebherr wine fridges ### The word people use, and the appliance under the counter Liebherr wine fridge is what most of South Florida types into a search box. It covers everything from a two-zone tall cabinet to the undercounter unit beside the sink. This page is about the undercounter unit; if what you own is tall and divided into zones, [wine cabinets](/appliances/wine-cabinet/) goes further, and [wine refrigeration](/appliances/wine-refrigeration/) explains what these appliances do that a food refrigerator does not. ### What goes wrong on a small unit - Not cooling at all — check power and the setting first, both of which are free - Running constantly, which under a worktop is usually ventilation before it is refrigeration - Warm at the top, which is airflow before it is refrigeration - Noise that has changed — a fan, a mount, or a cabinet that has shifted in its opening - Door seals and hinges, on a door opened more often than any cabinet door in the kitchen ### Built in is not the same as freestanding An undercounter unit fitted into joinery vents through its plinth, and a plinth panel fitted flush by a cabinetmaker who did not know that is one of the most common reasons a healthy appliance runs hot and never stops. It is worth saying, when you book, whether the unit was installed into the run or simply pushed into a gap — it changes what we look at first. ### What to have ready when you call The model number from the plate inside, what it is set to and what it is reading, whether it is built into the run or standing in a gap, whether the compressor runs at all, and what changed. If the setting is the question rather than a defect, [what temperature a wine cooler should be](/blog/what-temperature-should-a-wine-cooler-be/) is the page to read first. Undercounter · single zone · built into the run Wine fridge repair Not cooling, or cooling and never stopping Warm at the top and right at the bottom Noise you can hear from the next room The word people use, and the appliance under the counter Liebherr wine fridge is what most of South Florida types into a search box. It covers everything from a two-zone tall cabinet to the undercounter unit beside the sink. This page is about the undercounter unit; if what you own is tall and divided into zones, wine cabinets goes further, and wine refrigeration explains what these appliances do that a food refrigerator does not. What goes wrong on a small unit Not cooling at all — check power and the setting first, both of which are free Running constantly, which under a worktop is usually ventilation before it is refrigeration Warm at the top, which is airflow before it is refrigeration Noise that has changed — a fan, a mount, or a cabinet that has shifted in its opening Door seals and hinges, on a door opened more often than any cabinet door in the kitchen Built in is not the same as freestanding An undercounter unit fitted into joinery vents through its plinth, and a plinth panel fitted flush by a cabinetmaker who did not know that is one of the most common reasons a healthy appliance runs hot and never stops. It is worth saying, when you book, whether the unit was installed into the run or simply pushed into a gap — it changes what we look at first. What to have ready when you call The model number from the plate inside, what it is set to and what it is reading, whether it is built into the run or standing in a gap, whether the compressor runs at all, and what changed. If the setting is the question rather than a defect, what temperature a wine cooler should be is the page to read first. ### My wine fridge has stopped cooling completely. Start with the two free checks: is it actually powered — undercounter units share circuits with a great many other things — and has the temperature been changed, by somebody or by a control that has been leaned on. If it is powered and set correctly and has been warm for more than a few hours, it is a repair, and the useful things to tell us are how warm it is reading, whether the compressor is running at all and whether anything is showing on the display. ### It is warm at the top and cold at the bottom. On a single-zone unit a few degrees of difference top to bottom is normal — cold air falls, and manufacturers expect it. What is not normal is a difference big enough to matter to a bottle, and the usual causes are airflow rather than refrigeration: a unit loaded to the back of every shelf, a vent at the plinth that has been blocked by the joinery, or a fan that has stopped. All three are worth checking before anything is opened. ### It runs constantly and it is loud. An undercounter unit built into a run of cabinets has to get rid of its heat through the plinth, and in a Miami kitchen in August it is doing that against a warm floor cavity. A unit that never rests is often a ventilation problem rather than a failing compressor — but constant running still wears a compressor that has nothing wrong with it, so it is worth attending to rather than living with. Noise that has changed, rather than noise that has always been there, is the one to call about. ### Is a wine fridge worth repairing at this size? More often than people expect, because the things that fail on small units are mostly not the expensive things: a fan, a thermostat or sensor, a door seal, a hinge, lighting, a control board. Those are ordinary repairs. We will tell you plainly when a repair on a small cabinet stops making sense against what a new one costs, and that conversation happens before any work, not after it. --- **[Read full article: Wine fridges](https://liebherrmiami.support/appliances/wine-fridge/)**