Note on the fridge:
Friends at the door, and the only white in the house is room temperature. You are still fine.
A car door out the front, two people you love walking up the drive, and the bottle you meant to chill has been on the bench since this morning. You know the feeling in the stomach. It is the freezer-sprint feeling.
Twenty minutes later, on the deck, pouring cold. Nobody went back inside.
You have done every version of the rescue. The bottle in the freezer that you forget until it is slush. The ice bucket that drips over the table and still leaves the neck warm. The relay to the fridge where you spend the evening in the kitchen while the conversation happens outside. Ice in the glass, which is water in the wine.
None of them were wrong. They were all trying to cool the bottle from the outside, and that is where the hour goes.
The fix lives in the freezer door
Cold from the outside has to get through the glass first. Cold that starts inside the wine has no distance to travel. A frozen rod of 304 food-grade stainless steel goes straight down the neck of the bottle you have just opened. Serving temperature in 10 to 15 minutes, and it holds there for up to three hours while everyone sits on the deck. The spout on top airs the wine as you pour and does not drip. Lindner & Co make it.
In the freezer since: the first warm weekend. Still there.
About an hour the first time. After that it just waits.
When the car door goes
- It is already frozenIt lives in the freezer door all summer. Nothing to plan, nothing to remember.
- Open the bottle, rod inPour the first glass, slide the rod down the neck. Serving temperature in 10 to 15 minutes.
- Stay at the tableCold for up to three hours. The bottle stays out with you instead of going back to the fridge between pours.
The bottle stays on the rail. So do you.
What people ask before the first drop-in
It is a sealed rod of 304 food-grade stainless steel. No battery, no gel, nothing to charge. Cold steel in the wine, and the wine gets cold.
Standard 750 ml bottles, screw caps included. The rubber collar takes the neck, the stopper seals what is left.
It is for anything you serve cold: white, rosé, bubbles. Red can stay in the rack.
Buy one, get one free: two complete kits, 2 chilling rods, 2 aerating spouts, 2 stoppers. One always ready in your freezer. One for the friend who drops by unannounced.
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From people whose friends just turn up
"The neighbours came over on a Sunday with no warning. Bottle off the bench, rod in, and by the time the chairs were out it was cold. Nobody knew."
Mark J. · Verified purchase"Gave the second one to my sister, who is famous for leaving the bottle out. She has stopped apologising for warm wine."
Dianne P. · Verified purchaseThat's 4.7 out of 5 across 1,422 reviews.
Next time the car door goes, the bottle is cold before they have sat down.
About an hour in the freezer, 10 to 15 minutes in the bottle, cold on the table for up to three hours. Buy one, get one free.
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