Friday, 4:40pm
One stays home, one lives at the lake. Both pour a cold glass in 10 to 15 minutes.
You packed the car properly this time. Shopping, firewood, chargers, and yes, the corkscrew. You got up there, filled the fridge in ten minutes, and carried the white through to the table at five.
Twenty minutes later somebody says it out loud: is this still cold? It isn't. The bottle is open, so there is no closing it again. The petrol station with the bags of ice is twenty minutes back down the road. And the thing that would have fixed it is in your own freezer, ninety miles from here.
The Friday list
- Shopping
- Firewood
- Chargers
- Corkscrew
- Something cold for the wine
Up there, one question decides everything
Is it already in the house when you arrive, without you having packed it? Measure everything you own against that.
The cool bag in the boot. Lives at home. Works on the Fridays you remember it.
The cottage fridge. Full of food the second you walk in, and no use once the bottle is open on the table.
The ice bucket. Wants ice, and out here ice is a drive. Then it sweats a ring into the table.
Cubes in the glass. They water the wine down while you talk.
The sleeve. Frozen at home, where you left it.
The freezer. Somebody always forgets the bottle in there.
You are not the careless one here. Every cooling thing you own has exactly one address, and you have two.
Cold from the outside has a distance to cross
A bucket, a fridge, a sleeve: each has to push cold through the glass before any of it reaches the wine. That is a distance, and it costs time you don't have with guests already through the door.
Cold that starts inside the wine has no distance to cross.
A frozen rod of 304 food-grade stainless steel goes down into the bottle you already opened. Serving temperature in 10 to 15 minutes, held there for up to three hours, and the clear spout airs the wine on the way into the glass without dripping.
And this is the part that matters for two addresses: it is the kind of cold you can own twice and simply leave behind. No cable, no power, no ice, nothing to maintain. The freezer up there runs all year anyway.
It has a name: the Lindner & Co Wine Cooling Stick.
See how it works →Three steps, all of them up at the lake
- It lives in the freezer up there, all week, all year. About an hour in the freezer is all it needs the first time.
- You open the bottle at the table and slide the rod down the neck.
- You pour through the spout.
Nothing to pack, nothing to charge, nothing that spoils between visits. The one at home does the same three steps the same evening. One kit is 1 rod, 1 spout, 1 stopper.
What you are actually thinking
"Do I really need two of the same thing?"
No. You need a second address. Two complete kits, each with its own rod, spout and stopper. The extra one isn't in a drawer, it's in a different freezer.
"The freezer up there is tiny, and it's an old chest freezer."
It takes the space of a spatula. The shelf, or the basket in the chest freezer, next to the ice tray from two years ago. Ready again after about an hour.
"It'll just sit there unused for weeks at a time."
304 stainless steel. No gel, nothing to leak, no expiry date, dishwasher safe. It waits.
The Friday list
- Shopping
- Firewood
- Chargers
- Corkscrew
- Something cold for the wine
One for the freezer at home. One that stays at the lake.
Two complete kits: 2 chilling rods, 2 aerating spouts, 2 stoppers.
Set up both freezers →Free UK delivery · 30-day money-back guarantee
If the second address turns out to be somebody else's kitchen, nothing is wasted.
Two people who own one, and leave one waiting
4.8/5 · 370 reviews
I've bought 2 before and I'm happy with them
Rose-Marie A.
It sat in my freezer for weeks .....only used it for the first time yesterday. Pleasantly surprised, very happy
Carina D.
Next Friday, it is already up there.
You pack the shopping and a jumper. What makes five o'clock up there work is already waiting in a freezer ninety miles from your own.
Give the second one an address →