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How to cool your wine quickly
Quick cooling of wine
With warm and delicious summer weather, it can be difficult to always have fresh chilled beverages ready. The cadence in the supply line can easily get up in gear when the need for a delicious tempered rosé or white wine is as constant as it is right now.
That’s why we’ve found six life hacks to help you and your friends.
Tip 1 - The ice cube maker that saves your day
The optimal fast cooling always contains ice cubes. If you can't keep up with the bags and trays in your freezer, you could dream of an ice cube machine.
Tip 2 - Cooling a bottle of newspaper
Wet a newspaper and wrap your wine bottle in it. Contrary to immediate logic, you should now place it directly in the sun, which heats up the newspaper. The energy for evaporation causes the temperature in the bottle to drop.
After half an hour, your bottle is cool.
You can also be a good scout and have a cooling sleeve in the freezer. Ready to clamp around a bottle, whether it’s a tall and slim Alsace bottle or a low and butted champagne bottle.
Tip 3 - Cool wine quickly with ice water with salt
Then there’s the super-efficient variant, where you have a good portion of ice cream, but are in a shortage of time. In a good bucket, pour water, ice cubes and salt while stirring. Down with the bottle.
For a minute or two, turn it a little around its own axis without shaking it. Yes, the bottle.
The salt causes the ice to melt and the evaporation energy lowers the temperature in the bottle. Salt water also has a lower freezing point than fresh water. You will now have a cool bottle in a few minutes or three. The mixing ratio is about two tablespoons. salt for a tray of ice cubes and half a litre of water.
A good ice bucket is needed for this.
Tip 4 - Cooling a bottle of wine with a wet sock
The third trick is made for the Danish weather. If it’s windy, and it usually is, you can hang a bottle in a wet sock. The more wind, the faster your bottle cools down. This can take up to half an hour, depending on the weather conditions.
You have to make sure you have the right size socks, but what about a sock or two tailored for a bottle? We have blind tasting socks that fit perfectly with a wine bottle.
Tip 5 - Dig your own fridge
Finally, there is the old-school method. Dig a completely analogue hole about half a metre deep and you have a stable temperature of around 12 degrees. A whole metre down there are five degrees all year round, and now it starts to look a bit like a project, you can see.
We are approaching a real wine cellar. And we think wine cellars are the coolest in the world just because you can store your wine at the perfect temperature.
After two hours at a depth of half a metre and covered with soil, your bottles are ready to serve.
If you don't have time to dig a hole first and then wait two hours, our wine cooler rods with built-in freezing element to immerse in the wine itself can certainly help you. It is so smart that the cooling element is mounted on a spout. Isn't that cool enough?
Tip 6 - How to cool wine in the freezer
The freezer can be used, but be careful. A really good and effective trick to cool wine quickly is to wrap a bottle in a wet tea towel before it smokes a trip in the freezer. After about 10 minutes, your bottle is nicely cold, but you need to keep an eye on it.
The freezer’s minus 18°C is too cold for a bottle of wine to be forgotten inside. A rule of thumb says that half of a wine’s alcoholic strength corresponds roughly to the wine’s freezing point in minus degrees, so that a bottle of wine with an alcoholic strength of 13% freezes at minus 6.5°C. If wine is cooled down too much, you risk the stopper being pushed out and you get a vinous slush ice cream mixed with glass shards in the freezer.
Therefore, use a stopwatch, for example in your phone, to keep track of the time.