The fridge is great. Packaging was top notch plus! Is beautiful too! Mostly quiet, there is a low hum from the compressor but nothing significant. I wish you could handle the dual temperatures differently but maybe is not possible due to design, That said, the top is at 45, bottom, which has more space at 55. However, 43 bottles is relative to the size of your bottles. There is one rack, the one between sections in which only very slim bottles fit, At the same time, the bottom rack will only support bottles up to a certain length because the compressor wall is behind it. Therefore, while 43 might be possible reality would be less bottles.