Tips for quickly cooling the wine

Are you having a dinner party and forgot to chill the wines? Don't worry, and follow some quick and efficient tricks to speed up the cooling of your wines.

Tip 1
Place the bottle in an ice bucket or a deep container with 2/3 ice and 1/3 water and add two or three hands of salt. The salt lowers the freezing point of the water, which will help the cooling. To protect the label, wrap the bottle in cellophane paper. Don't forget to submerge it up to the neck. Wait about 15/20 minutes to check if your bottle is at the desired temperature. Those who have tried this tip say it works perfectly.

Tip 2
Wrap the bottle in a wet cloth or damp kitchen paper and place it in the freezer. In 15/20 minutes, the bottle will cool down very quickly. The water in the paper or cloth freezes quickly and accelerates the bottle cooling.

Tip 3
Always keep a few grape berries in the freezer. This way, whenever you forget to chill wine, just put a "pebble" of grapes in your glass, and the temperature will go down very quickly without changing the characteristics of your wine.

Tip 4
Have you ever heard of stone ice cubes? They imitate the shape of an ice cube and have rounded corners to prevent the glass from breaking. After about 3 hours in the freezer, they are ready to chill in a wine glass. If you want to invest in one of these stone-made ice cube sets, keep it in your freezer, ready to use at any time. The benefit is you can reuse it. After using them, rinse them in water, leave them to dry on a cloth, and put them back in the freezer. They are widely used for cooling whiskey and are called "whiskey stones", but you can use them for any drink.