Super Quick Video Tips: The Fastest Way to Chill Wine

Short on time but need to chill your wine? Check out this cool test kitchen tip!

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[Hunnterk]

Very nice for a large number of drinks all at once.
Still prefer that salt water method though. Works great for a single drink. Especially good with a can because of the metals conduction.
Plus, that spinning in the bowl of water works up the body a little and makes that drink taste so much more rewarding.

[schumacherenator]

That introduction should be, "too depressed to wait for your wine to chill?"

[VidkunQL]

I haven't tried this, but if it works, it must be because of the evaporation of some of the water from the towel, not the freezing; freezing produces heat.