Nobody asks about the pavlova. Everyone asks about the stick in the wine.

12:40pm. The prawns are on ice. The wine doesn’t need to be.

You’ve been up since six. The verandah finally looks the way you pictured it. The good tablecloth. The bon bons. The ham, glazed and shining.

You open a cold bottle of rosé and pour the first round. Then you do one small thing.

You take a slim steel stick out of the freezer and slide it into the bottle. A clear spout goes on top. The bottle goes back in the middle of the table.

Nobody notices. Not yet.

Second glass. Your father-in-law reaches for the bottle. He only drinks beer. But he stops, because the bottle still feels cold in his hand, in the middle of summer. He tips it to the light and squints down the neck.

“Hang on. What’s that?”

Now every head at the table turns.

Third glass. Your sister-in-law wants to know where you got it. Your neighbour wants to know why it pours so clean. Someone takes a photo. It isn’t of the pavlova.

Then you notice something. You never got up. Not once. No dashing back to the fridge. No ice bucket dripping on the tablecloth.

Other years, your chair sat empty half the afternoon. This year, you stayed with your people.

By the pav, three people want the link.

So what is it, exactly?

It’s the Lindner & Co Wine Cooler. Each box holds three pieces:

• A slim stainless-steel stick. It lives in your freezer. Then it stands in the wine and keeps it cold.
• A clear pour spout. It sits on top. It gives the wine a little air as you pour, with no drips down the bottle.
• A stopper. For whatever’s left. (It happens.)

The steel is food-safe. There’s no ice, so nothing melts into your wine. No batteries, no cord, nothing to charge.

It fits standard 750 ml bottles: white, rosé, prosecco and champagne.

Three honest things, before someone at your table tests you

“Can’t I get two at Bunnings for forty bucks?”

Maybe. Our comments are full of that one too:

We won’t pretend cheaper sticks don’t exist. If all you want is a cold rod in a bottle, go get one. No hard feelings.

But a bare rod isn’t what you’re buying here. You’re buying the full kit, twice, and the second one arrives already boxed as a gift.

So here’s what comes in our box. You can check every line:

• The full kit: the stick, the drip-free spout that airs the wine, and a stopper.
• Food-safe stainless steel, made to live in your freezer.
• Its own printed box, so the second one is ready to give.
• All three pieces go in the dishwasher.
• Free tracked shipping Australia-wide and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

One buyer did the maths under our video:

And think about that second kit. You were going to bring something to Christmas lunch anyway. A candle. Flowers that wilt in a few days. This one stays on their table. And every time someone there asks, “Where’d you get that?”, they’ll say your name.

One for your table. One for the first friend who asks.

Remember the text? Here’s how you answer it.

It’s Buy 1, Get 1 Free. Two complete kits for A$74.99. That’s A$37.50 each.

Keep one on your table. And when that text comes, you don’t send a link. You hand them the second box.

Got a Christmas host to thank? A Kris Kringle to sort? A sister who “needs one”? The bigger sets cover them all.