This is everything it is advertised to be. We have made ice cream and wine slushies (bottle straight from fridge) several times, and it always turns out great. We can actually get two batches of ice cream or wine slushies at a time. For wine slushies, we've used moscato, muscadines, sangria, and a couple other types, and they all work great.

You should know though, the instructions say don't use sugar-free mixes to cream juice slushies. We tried it anyway, and it doesn't work. It very quickly freezes to the sides instead of slowly all freezing at the same time. They tried to tell me :)

Zero mess, just turn it on and come back in 25 minutes. It could not be simpler.