A wine cooler generally refers to a container that cools wine using ice. Wine coolers come in different types; they range from your typical ice bucket to high end electric wine coolers. Another reference to wine cooler is a carbonated alcoholic drink made from wine and fruit juice with smaller alcohol content, which had less restrictive laws than wine.

The wine used in wine coolers is also of a lesser grade that makes it possible for wine coolers to be sold at a much cheaper price. But here we’ll discuss wine cooler, the accessory. A wine cooler is a must have if you are serving white wine as white wine needs to be served chilled not cold. Wine cooler gives you better results in chilling your wine than putting it in the refrigerator. Wine cooler with chill your wine naturally compared to the controlled temperature of the refrigerator. An electronic wine cooler functions the same way as well, where you can keep your wine chilled at a regulated temperature and has a quicker effect than an ice bucket. While we at the topic of wine coolers, you also need to be aware of over chilling your white wine. Do not over chill white wine or its flavours will be muted. Light, acidic, sparkling and very sweet white wines should be served at no higher than 50 degrees Fahrenheit while Chardonnays and dry Semillons can be chilled a little less than that (less chilled). However even some red wine will taste better when they are lightly chilled for about an hour in the cooler such as a young Beaujolais, Dolcetto or New Zealand reds.

 

Wine coolers comes in a variety of shapes and sizes to suit your lifestyle, you can find a typical round bucket to the funkiest designs available. The size of a typical wine cooler ranges from the smallest that fits one bottle to the largest that can fit up to 6 bottles at one time. Normal coolers are made from plastic with a hard foam in between, and a disposable cooler is made from polystyrene, it is advisable against using disposable coolers are they are not environmentally friendly. How does a cooler work? Most common coolers functions by putting ice cubes on top of the items to keep them cool, some coolers come with ice packs to avoid messing spillage when the ice melts and some coolers even have gel sealed inside so that it stays cold for a longer period than ice.

On the high tech end, we have thermoelectric coolers that can cool your wine quicker than a regular ice bucket. Electric coolers can drop to about 40 degrees Fahrenheit in less than 15 minutes. The smallest electric coolers are powered by plugging it into your car’s cigarette lighter socket. Despite being referred to as a cooler, a wine cooler also functions as a warmer if you need your wine to be kept at room temperature while you’re in the cold outdoors, it doesn’t heat up your wine but it functions very well to prevent the wine temperature from dropping.

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