Two phones came out before anyone had taken a sip | Lindner & Co
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Second bottle of the afternoon

Two phones came out before anyone had taken a sip. They weren't pointed at the view.

You are topping everyone up on the patio, and the thing people photograph is the slim steel line standing in your bottle. Then the question, before the glass is even full: what is that?

A bottle of white wine with the chilling rod in it, two glasses and a grazing board on a balcony table at dusk

The bottle that stays on the table, and the thing in it that everyone asks about.

What they are really asking

Nobody photographs an ice bucket. Nobody asks about the fridge. The question is really about the thing every host has quietly given up on: the bottle you opened cold is warm by the second pour, and every fix costs you something.

  • The fridge relaysomeone gets up between every pour
  • The ice bucketcools the outside of the glass, drips on the table
  • The sleevecold for one glass, then a wet sock
  • Ice in the glassreaches the wine, and waters it down

None of them were the wrong idea. They were all working on the outside of the glass, and the wine is on the inside.

Cold that starts inside the wine

A frozen rod of 304 food-grade stainless steel goes down the neck of the bottle you have already opened. The cold moves outward through the wine instead of inward through the glass: serving temperature in 10 to 15 minutes, held for up to three hours on the table. The clear spout on top aerates every pour on the way to the glass and does not drip. That is what they are photographing. Lindner & Co make it.

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The steel chilling rod being taken out of a freezer drawer

It lives in the freezer. About an hour the first time, then it is simply there.

How the afternoon goes with it

  1. Already frozenIt stays in the freezer door between weekends. Nothing to plan.
  2. Pour a glass, slide it inThe first glass makes room. Serving temperature in 10 to 15 minutes.
  3. Leave the bottle on the tableCold for up to three hours. Pour through the spout, no drips on the cloth. Dishwasher afterwards.
Rosé being poured through the chilling rod's spout at a garden dinner table

The second bottle, poured cold, without anyone leaving the table.

The questions that follow "what is that?"

"Is it a gimmick?"

It is a sealed rod of 304 stainless steel. No motor, no battery, no gel. Cold steel in the wine, and the wine gets cold.

"Does it change the taste?"

Nothing melts, nothing goes into the wine. The spout aerates as you pour, so the last glass tastes like the first, or a little better.

"Does it fit my bottles?"

Standard 750 ml bottles, screw caps included. The rubber collar takes the neck, the stopper seals what is left.

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Two complete kits: 2 chilling rods, 2 aerating spouts, 2 stoppers. One stays in your freezer. The other goes to whoever asked first.

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From people who got asked

★★★★★

"Three people asked where it came from before the second bottle was open. It lives in my freezer door now and I gave the other one to my sister."

Sarah M. · Verified purchase
★★★★★

"As someone who truly loves wine, this has made a big difference for me. It keeps the wine cold for a long time and looks really elegant."

Mark J. · Verified purchase

That's 4.7 out of 5 across 1,422 reviews.

Next time the phones come out, you will know why.

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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