We tested it · Wine
The Weigh-InOne ice cube, a set of kitchen scales, and what the melt leaves in your glass.
You poured for six people last Friday. By the third glass someone asked for ice. Here is what one cube left behind.
28 g
one ice cube straight from the tray, on the kitchen scales, before it melted6
28 g
the same dish once it had all melted. Not a gram vanished. In a glass it does not vanish either — it goes into the wine. That is the third glass. Dave Arnold: “there is no chilling without dilution.”1, 6
11–15%
water in a 150 ml pour, cooled with ice. A 12% wine pouring like a 10.6% one, every glass, every time. That is ice cooling a glass down — a different job from holding one cold.2
333.5
J/g
energy ice absorbs the instant it turns from solid to liquid. The cooling and the melting are the same event. You cannot buy one without the other.2
8°C → 11°C
a glass of white in a 29°C room, after five minutes. That was a glass, not a bottle. There is no bottle figure, and a bottle is slower. But it is losing cold the same way.3
The bottle came out of the fridge cold. From the second it is open it is standing in a warm room giving that cold back. Doug Woodward: “room temperature in France is not the same as room temperature in Australia.”5
½ ice · ½ water
what WSET says a bucket needs — three-quarters full, equal parts ice and water, because air insulates. It works. It also drips, it needs room on the table, and the bottle comes out wet for every pour.4 A sleeve? Liz Lovery: “Insulated wine sleeves are nice but they’re a supplement, not a replacement.”7
~14 J/g
energy frozen 304 stainless steel carries. It hands that cold to the wine without melting — nothing changes state, nothing ends up in the glass. Ice charges 11–15% water for its cooling. Steel charges nothing.2
0 g
dilution from a rod of frozen steel. It holds cold. It adds nothing to the wine. Nothing enters the glass.
Cooling with ice costs water. Cooling with steel costs nothing.
The Lindner & Co Wine Chiller: a rod of 304 food-grade stainless steel. Lives in the freezer — always ready, next to the peas. The moment the bottle is opened, the rod goes down inside it and brings the wine to serving temperature in 10 to 15 minutes.
A pour channel runs through it — you pour through the rod. A clear acrylic spout on top aerates the wine on the way out. Stopper included, for what’s left.
It holds an opened bottle cold for up to three hours. Then the rod goes back in the freezer for next time.
Dishwasher safe. Fits 99% of bottles, screw-caps included.
Give it the 10 to 15 minutes. It lives in the freezer, so it is frozen and ready when the bottle is. One bottle at a time, at the table. That is the job.
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1 Dave Arnold, via SevenFifty Daily: “There is no chilling without dilution.”
2 Latent heat of fusion of ice = 333.5 J/g; frozen 304 stainless ≈ 14 J/g. The 11–15% figure is derived from these constants for a 150 ml pour and describes cooling down, not holding cold.
3 Kannapinn, Kohler & Schäfer, Applied Sciences 2024, 14, 8997, TU Darmstadt — glass measurements only; no bottle figure is claimed.
4 WSET published serving-temperature and ice-bucket guidance.
5 Doug Woodward, in Young Gun of Wine.
6 Our reading: one cube from a standard tray on the kitchen scales — 28 g solid, 28 g once melted. Melting changes state, not mass.
7 Liz Lovery, on insulated wine sleeves.
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