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Rocco Classic Smart Fridge Review: A Cool Conversation Piece
Updated November 2026: The Rocco Super Smart Fridge is now called the Rocco Classic, after Rocco released two new fridges in 2026, the lower-priced Essential and desktop-sized Mini Mini. Copy has been updated to reflect the new moniker.
Opening up someone else’s kitchen refrigerator is an intimate act.
I for one would prefer my guests don’t go in there for a beer and see the raspberries that are probably moldy, revealing a dark side of my personality. I’ll just get their drink for them. Having a separate mini fridge just for drinks can help, and when I saw how fresh and innovative the Rocco seemed, I had to know more.
The Rocco Classic feels more like a piece of furniture sitting in my living room, as opposed to a regular mini fridge, which often looks like it’s out of a college dorm, or a more industrial-looking regular wine fridge. I have the matte graphite color (it also comes in white, green, brown, and mirror-black).
The whole thing is mostly made of steel, which makes it strong and heavy, and the rounded edges give it more of a soft appeal. It seems to be engineered very well, with quality materials, which I’m sure is why it costs as much as it does. This should last me a very long time in my home. Overall, it’s a beautiful statement piece that people who like to host in their home will love, but the features that make this a smart fridge are not perfect.
A typical wine fridge will generally fit full-size bottles of wine only, but the Classic can fit 77 12-ounce cans (though Rocco's website says 88) or 27 wine bottles in its 34.5 x 24 x 16-inch body (H x W x D). There are six shelves, each of which is designed so you can store bottles and cans of any size and stagger them to fit like a puzzle. Each shelf is also reversible so the grooves match whichever shape bottles you choose to place on each shelf.
The Rocco connects to an app on your phone (currently available only for iOS; Rocco hopes to have an Android version at some point). The app is simple and easy to use, but there aren’t that many things to do on it, and some of the features feel forced. First of all, there are a few modes you can control from the app. I keep mine on Quiet Mode. It really is extremely quiet. I rarely hear much of a rumbling noise from the compressor compared to other fridges.
Similarly, there’s Smart Mode, which makes it work more like a thermostat when the fridge is sitting in a warmer temperature. There’s also Party Mode, which prioritizes keeping the drinks cold more so than making less noise. After a few minutes, I did hear the compressor get a little louder. I opened it a few minutes later, and it was definitely colder in there. (Rocco gives the temperature range as 37 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit.)
But if I want the drinks to stay colder while I’m having a party where people are opening it often, I could just lower the temperature to where I want it myself. I really don’t see much of a need for all of these modes. Using a wireless Bluetooth thermometer, I tested the temperature changes inside the fridge for each mode to make sure they work properly. I gave each of them 10 minutes to change and tested each shelf on both ends of the fridge. I was pleased to find these were all within just a few degrees difference of what the fridge read.
The other primary feature of the app is the vision system. When you first set up the app, sensors in the fridge scan everything you’re storing in it. Every beverage then shows up on your app, organized by drawer. I’m storing some pretty obscure drinks, like OoMee algae-infused beverage and Yaté yerba mate, and it recognized most of them, so I was impressed, although some, like my Dolin vermouth, which is one of the most popular vermouth brands, were not recognized.