Wine bottle warmer

Slimbo

Hi All,

Can anyone help please.

I have been looking for a wine bottle warmer as putting the wine on and off the radiator is starting to take its toll. I can never get it to the correct room temperature, and it cools down too quickly on its own on the room.

Does anyone know where I can purchase one of these.

Thanks for any help.

Slimbo:)

rediguana

I've read from respectable sources that wine is more robust than people might imagine. Still, I'd avoid putting it on radiators, in the microwave etc.

What temperature is your house? Reds should be served maybe 14degrees to 18degrees celcius, depending on the type. Surely your house isn't cooler than this? Maybe it is, I know some people dislike too much warmth.

I actually chill my reds for ten mins in the fridge before I open them but my apartment tends to hover around 24degrees.

In answer to your question, I don't know where you'd get one. If you're not worried about show, get a thermometer and fill up your sink with (eg.) 16degree water. Leave wine in it between pours. If you want to make it look nicer (if you have a lady friend over, for example), sprinkle flower petals on the water, to swirl lazily around the bottle.

rubadub

You get little jackets of gel that fit snug on bottles, usually people use these to chill wine, but they will just as easily hold in heat. Just dont go microwaving and exploding them, maybe leave them in the hotpress. You could buffer the heat from a radiator too, just leave a towel on it, or wrap you warmed wine in something, similar a tea cosy. No reason you could not fill a wine bucket with warmish water too. You can get straight socks with out heels that might do the trick.

Slimbo

Thanks for the replies, very helpful.

Just to update, I have just found a wine bottle warmer on the internet.
You fit the bottle into it and set the temperature to whatever you like to warm your wine, you can also use it to cool wine apparently.

It looks great even though a little expensive.

I don't know if this would be any use, but sounds like a good tool if you like your wine to be a consistant temperature.

In your opinion, would it do anything to the wine to leave it at a constant temp?

Thanks again,

Slimbo:)

loyatemu

red wine is supposed to be at "room temperature" but this is actually a bit cooler than most people have their houses (generally 20-21C)

the only reason you would need to warm wine up is if you have a proper wine cellar, or you've been keeping it in the fridge or outside.

DadaKopf

Or your flat is rediculously cold because the storage heaters dont work!

1carrot2

I have been to Gibneys in Malahide recently where you can buy a bottle of wine in the off-licence and drink it in the pub for a corkage charge.
They put a warming jacket on bottles of red wine to bring it to drinking temperature quickly.
I would suggest that you ring them and ask where to source the 'warming jacket'.
PS The wine is overpriced in the off-licence but when you pay the corkage to drink it in the pub it works out much better value than any wine bar or restaurant.