brandon vallorani on how to chill wine in a pinch
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How To Chill Wine
Brandon Vallorani
Ever felt that panic when your guests arrive and you realize you forgot to put the wine in the fridge to chill before they got there? There are ways around this crisis to chill a bottle of wine quickly so that your guests don’t have to wait.
There is the age old trick of putting the bottle in the freezer, but even that will take about half an hour to chill your wine. Here are some other suggestions…
1. Try always keeping a
bunch of grapes in your
freezer. If you have a room
temperature bottle, pop a
few grapes into each glass
before filling them with
wine. Each glass will be
perfectly chilled in three
minutes and the grapes
won’t dilute the wine the
way that an ice cube
would. Plus, it will look
rather decorative and
festive!
2. Fill a large bowl with
lots of ice and water. If
you submerge the bottle
in the mixture, it should
be chilled within fifteen
minutes. To aid in this
process, try adding salt
into the tub of water.
Salt water freezes at a
lower temperature than
non-salt water so your
wine will chill faster.
3. If you must use the
freezer method, speed it
up by wrapping the
bottle in a wet paper
towel. This will cut the
time that the bottle
needs in the freezer in
half, to fifteen minutes.
4. You could also try
putting a clean cold
pack or freezer pack
into a pitcher and
pouring the wine over it.
Swirling the wine
around in a pitcher with
the cold pack should
bring it down by ten
degrees every fifteen
minutes.
5. There is also a
specialized freezer pack
called Corkcicle. These
were designed as a
wine stopper to keep
the wine chilled after
you open it and as you
are drinking, but can be
effective to chill wine
slightly, if you always
have one ready in your
freezer.
So never fear if your wine isn’t chilled--there are many options to save you once your guests arrive!
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