1. Never water down your drink...Make wine ice cubes of left over wine
- Pour left over wine into an ice tray
- Freeze for 48 hours
- Drink your wine with wine
Pro Tip: Forget white strips for your teeth....If you drink a bottle of red wine, be sure to follow it with a bottle of white wine to avoid straining your teeth.
2. Chill a bottle of warm wine in 20 minutes? Have a room temperature wine and want to drink right away? Chill it in 20 minutes with a cold paper towel
- Wet a paper towel in cold water
- Wrap the wet towel around the bottle
- Stick it in the freezer for 20 minutes
Pro Tip: Hungary? Don't confuse thirst with hunger. Have a bottle of chilled wine first and see how you feel
3. Chill wine even faster (in 10 minutes)
- Pour cold water and ice into a bucket
- Add salt to melt the ice faster and reduce the freezing point of water
- Put wine bottle in the bucket and add more ice
Pro Tip: Put a long straw in your wine bottle, Well technically it becomes a juice box.
4. Never water down your drinks..Replace ice cubes with frozen grapes
- Freeze some grapes overnight
- Add grapes to your wine glass
- Nice cold wine coming right up..:)
- Best part is that you get to eat the cold grapes after finishing the wine
Pro Tip: Stock up on red wine before a storm, red wine doesn't need a fridge or ice
5. Make cheap wine taste better
- Cut some fresh berries (strawberries or blackberries)
- Add to the glass of wine
- Berries add to the flavour and looks chic too!
Pro Tip: Always keep cheap white wine on hand, for cooking or impromptu day drinking.
6. Remove red wine stains
- Blot wine stain with a dry paper towel
- Cover the stain with salt and let it sit for an hour
- After an hour dab the stain with hot water (with a cloth or paper towel)
- Enjoy the stain free life
Pro Tip: Drink wine shirtless, so you will avoid straining it altogether
7. Disguise your favourite but cheap wine
- Use a decanter
- Pour wine into the decanter
- Recycle your cheap wine bottle before guests arrive
- Decanter will also help in aeration of the wine
Pro Tip: Prioritize your spending - Never taught your kids about tooth fairy? Now you can buy yourself extra 2-3 bottles of wine
8. Make wine last longer in the refrigerator
- Store wine sideways
- This will prevent premature oxidation
- And wine will taste fresh
Pro Tip: Drink in the dark. Pour you wine in the dark so you don't know how much you are pouring... Storage problem solved...
(Disclaimer: All Pro Tips are written, after drinking a few glasses of Wine)
