Saturday, outside, no kitchen in reach
The trick that keeps an open bottle cold for up to three hours — with no fridge to go back to.
The rosé came out of the fridge perfect. Twenty minutes on the blanket and your friend is holding out her glass, and the second pour is already the temperature of the afternoon. You cannot put an opened bottle back.
Where the trick earns its keep: no fridge within a hundred metres.
Every trick you know needs a kitchen
Judge them all by one question: does it work on a bottle that is already open, where you are sitting? The fridge relay: someone gets up every quarter of an hour and the bottle lives indoors. The freezer sprint: works until you forget it, and it comes out as slush. The ice bucket: cools from the outside, drips over the blanket, and the neck stays warm. The sleeve: cold for one glass. Ice in the glass: water in the wine.
The bucket was never the wrong idea. It was solving the wrong half of the problem — the outside of the glass, when the wine is on the inside.
Cold from the inside has no glass to cross
Everything above pushes cold through the bottle wall and hopes the wine notices. Cold that starts in the middle of the wine has nowhere to travel. Steel stores cold and gives it back slowly, so the bottle holds instead of warming from the outside in.
A frozen rod of 304 food-grade stainless steel goes down the neck of the bottle you have already opened: serving temperature in 10 to 15 minutes, and it holds there for up to three hours on the blanket, the garden table, the bench by the barbecue. That is the trick. Lindner & Co make it.
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It lives in the freezer. About an hour the first time, then it is simply there.
The Lindner & Co Wine Chiller, in three moves
- About an hour in the freezerMost people leave it in the door for good, so it is frozen on the day you pack the basket.
- Pour a glass, slide the rod inThe first glass makes room. Serving temperature in 10 to 15 minutes, held for up to three hours.
- Pour through the spoutThe clear spout airs the wine on the way to the glass and does not drip. The stopper seals what is left. Dishwasher afterwards.
The questions people ask on the blanket
It is a sealed rod of 304 stainless steel. No motor, no battery, no gel. Cold steel goes into the wine and the wine gets cold.
Nothing melts, nothing goes into the wine. The last glass tastes like the first.
Serving temperature in 10 to 15 minutes, then up to three hours. Long enough for the bottle to be empty before it is warm.
Standard 750 ml bottles, screwcaps included. The rubber collar takes the neck.
Cold where you sit. Nobody goes back inside.
Get both kits →Two complete kits: 2 chilling rods, 2 aerating spouts, 2 stoppers. One for the blanket, one for the friend who asks where you got it.
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4.7 out of 5, across 1,422 reviews
"Took it to the park on the first warm Saturday. The rosé was still properly cold at the last glass and I did not carry a bag of ice up the hill."
Helen R. · Verified purchase"Two friends asked where it came from before their glasses were full. It lives in my freezer door now."
Sophie E. · Verified purchaseNext time, the bottle stays cold where you are sitting.
About an hour in the freezer, 10 to 15 minutes in the bottle, cold for up to three hours. Buy one, get one free.
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