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For anyone who has ever said "they'll be here in twenty minutes"

The wine is warm and the doorbell is not far off.

★★★★★4.7/5 · 1,422 reviews · "Excellent"

You meant to put it in the fridge this morning. You didn't, and now there isn't time. The fix was never the fridge. It is the thing already sitting in your freezer, cold and waiting.

Prep1 hr in the freezer
Ready inMinutes
Keeps coldUp to 2 hours
Serves2 bottles
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Before you start

The Lindner & Co Wine Chiller is a slim stainless-steel stick that lives in your freezer. Not "goes in the freezer when you remember" — lives there, on the shelf next to the peas, always cold.

That is the whole trick, and it is a slightly annoying one. Tonight's rescue was decided weeks ago, on a quiet Tuesday, when you put it in the drawer and forgot about it.

It takes an hour to freeze. You do that once. After that it is simply always ready — a strange thing to own, and a very good thing to have.

Cook's note

What actually happens next

You open the bottle. You slide the frozen stick down the neck. The wine cools from the inside out. Cold in minutes, not the forty-five you haven't got. And it stays cold for up to two hours, which is longer than most dinners hold anyone's attention.

Minutes, yes. And only if the stick is already in the freezer — which is rather the point.

No ice bucket dripping onto the table. No bottle going back to the fridge between glasses. No handing someone a glass of lukewarm Sauvignon Blanc and saying "sorry, it's a bit —" while they politely say it's lovely. It is a small bit of prep you did weeks ago, paying off at the exact moment you need it.

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Every kit doubles. One lives in your freezer at home. The other goes to the one person who forgets even more than you do — usually a sibling, usually within a fortnight.

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Claire M.✓ Verified purchase
★★★★★

"Bought it because I am hopeless at planning ahead. It sits in the freezer and I never think about it. Then friends turn up and I look organised for the first time in my life. The wine was still cold when they left."

Ingredients
Everything included in the Lindner & Co Wine Chiller kit

With buy 1, get 1 free you get two of every kit:

  • 2 stainless-steel chilling sticks per kit — same length. One is always frozen while the other is working.
  • 1 drip-free pour spout with the aerator built in — it opens up the wine as you serve. Keeps the tablecloth out of it.
  • 1 wine stopper — for the half bottle that survives the evening, if one does.
  • 30-day money-back guarantee and free UK delivery. A rescue you have to argue about is not much of a rescue.
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Method · How it works

Three steps, and you only ever do the first one once.

The Wine Chiller stick stored in the freezer
Step 1

Freeze it

One hour in the freezer. Then leave it there for good — it's designed to live in the drawer, permanently ready.

Placing the Wine Chiller stick into a bottle
Step 2

Drop it in

Straight down the neck of any standard 0.75 litre bottle. It chills from the inside, so nothing gets watered down.

Pouring through the drip-free aerating spout
Step 3

Pour through the spout

The pour spout has the aerator built into it, so every glass opens up on the way out. Drip-free, no dribble down the label.

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Why it works

Two sticks, both the same length, both already cold

This is the detail people miss. It's the one that stops the panic happening twice. Each kit contains two chilling sticks of the same length. Not a long one and a short one. Not one for red and one for white. Two identical sticks — one in the bottle, one still cold in the drawer.

So the second bottle of the evening is no worse off than the first. Pull the used stick out, rinse it, pop the spare in. Nobody at the table has to hear about it. That is the difference between a gadget you try once and a thing that quietly becomes part of how your kitchen works.

The Wine Chiller on a laid outdoor table Chilled rosé poured on a summer table
Kitchen notes
304 stainless steel

Dishwasher-safe. Not the sort of thing that goes cloudy after one summer and gets thrown away.

Cold in minutes, cold for up to two hours

Fast enough to save an evening you'd forgotten about. Steady enough that the last glass is as cold as the first.

The aerator is in the spout

Not in the stick. The wine passes through it as you pour, so it opens up on the way to the glass. No decanter needed — you were never going to fetch one anyway.

Fits standard bottles

Any ordinary 0.75 litre bottle — white, rosé, or something with bubbles. Red can stay where it is: on the table, at room temperature, being smug.

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Tom B.✓ Verified purchase
★★★★★

"Two sticks was the bit that sold me, and it turned out to be right. Forgot to chill anything on Saturday, again. One stick went in the first bottle and the other was still frozen for the second. Feels far more expensive than it was — my father-in-law assumed it was a gift from someone posh."

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Make ahead

Preparation you only have to do once.

Most fixes for warm wine ask something of you at the worst possible moment. Find ice. Find a bucket. Find fifteen minutes you don't have. This one asks for an hour, weeks in advance, while you're doing something else.

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Priya N.✓ Verified purchase
★★★★★

"We keep ours in the freezer door and honestly forget it exists until someone drops round unannounced. Minutes later there is cold wine on the table and I look like I'd planned the whole thing."

Two glasses of chilled wine outdoors
Recipe Q&A · The sensible questions

What people ask before they commit to their own forgetfulness.

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How long does it take to freeze?

An hour from room temperature. In practice you freeze it once and leave it there. So it's already done by the time you need it.

Q

How cold does the wine actually get, and how quickly?

It cools the wine in minutes, not the best part of an hour a fridge takes. Once it's in the bottle, it holds the wine cold for up to two hours.

Q

Will it fit my bottles?

Any standard 0.75 litre bottle. White, rosé and sparkling are what it's for. Red is fine as it is — leave that one on the table.

Q

Is it a faff to clean?

No. It's 304 stainless steel and dishwasher-safe. Rinse it, dry it, back in the freezer, done.

Q

What if I don't get on with it?

Thirty days, money back. Delivery is free. It's the least we can do, given you're buying it in a mild panic.

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Helen W.✓ Verified purchase
★★★★★

"Went straight in the freezer the day it arrived. Two weeks later I forgot to chill the wine before people came round, and for once it didn't matter. The spout is cleverer than I expected — no drips at all. Bought a second lot for my sister."

That's the pattern in most of the 1,422 reviews. It arrives, it goes in the freezer, and then you stop thinking about it. 4.7 out of 5, mostly from people who had been caught out once too often.

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The next time you forget, it won't matter.

One hour in the freezer, once. After that the wine is cold in minutes, stays cold for up to two hours, and nobody has to hear the apology. Buy one kit, get a second free.

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