What’s the quickest way to chill a bottle of wine?

We put five methods of chilling a bottle of wine to the test, to help you out if you ever find yourself with a warm bottle of rosé and guests to entertain. What’s the quickest way to chill a bottle of wine? Here’s how you can perfectly chill a bottle of wine in just five minutes.

If you’ve ever found yourself asking the age old question: What’s the quickest way to chill a bottle of wine? Then our handy video is bound to help you out of a bind.

The first thing to say is that, whatever method you use, if it contains an ice bath, then you’ll want to add a generous amount of salt. Why? Salt lowers the freezing point of ice, which is also to say it lowers the temperature at which ice cubes will melt.

In the video, we put several interesting methods to the test, including a rather time and effort-consuming method that involves turning the bottle of wine constantly in its ice bath over the course of of five minutes.

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