Single Bottle Wine Chiller

[garylkoh]

When I lived alone and liked to crack open a bottle of Lafite Rothschild once in a while by myself when listening to music, I would pour half of it into an empty half-bottle. Fill it up right up to the neck, spritz a little Private Reserve in, cork it up, and put it into the refrigerator. Sometimes, I would go off on my travels, come back 3 weeks later, and it would be even better than the first half of the bottle. Seemed to work even for the older vintages which are more delicate and prone to oxidation.

[mep]

Good thing I don't like wine because it is way too much of a pain in the ass for me to deal with on many levels. Beer is simple. You put it in the fridge and let it get cold, take it out, open it up, and your good to go. The last thing I need is one more neurotic pastime. Maybe beer is the alcohol equivalent of digital audio. Digital audio is quick and easy compared to analog. Analog is a pain in the ass compared to digital just like wine is a pain in the ass compared to beer. So if you are a wine drinker and an analog lover, your life is more complicated than if you are a digital loving beer drinker. So I guess that puts me somewhere in the middle because I'm a beer drinking analog lover.

With my luck if I was a wine drinker, I would open up a bottle of wine to let it breathe and then go and adjust my tonearm. I would get caught up in doing some preventative maintenance and forget about my wine breathing and it would breathe too long and maybe run out of breath or something. And then that would mess up my sniffing and swirling routine when I poured the wine because I wouldn't know how long to sniff and swirl because the wine breathed too long.

[Mike]

Good thing I don't like wine because it is way too much of a pain in the ass for me to deal with on many levels. Beer is simple. You put it in the fridge and let it get cold, take it out, open it up, and your good to go. The last thing I need is one more neurotic pastime. Maybe beer is the alcohol equivalent of digital audio. Digital audio is quick and easy compared to analog. Analog is a pain in the ass compared to digital just like wine is a pain in the ass compared to beer. So if you are a wine drinker and an analog lover, your life is more complicated than if you are a digital loving beer drinker. So I guess that puts me somewhere in the middle because I'm a beer drinking analog lover.

With my luck if I was a wine drinker, I would open up a bottle of wine to let it breathe and then go and adjust my tonearm. I would get caught up in doing some preventative maintenance and forget about my wine breathing and it would breathe too long and maybe run out of breath or something. And then that would mess up my sniffing and swirling routine when I poured the wine because I wouldn't know how long to sniff and swirl because the wine breathed too long.

Do what I do: Get the wine labeled "Best before Friday"

[flez007]

I have heard that wine is good for lowering cholesterol while improving metabolism at the same time, but not sure if it has to be red wine only - did your doctor specified red-wine only?