Whats the best way to quickly chill wine?
If you don’t have an hour in the fridge, fill an ice bucket or your sink with 1/3 ice and the rest cold water. According to the Mythbusters, adding salt to the water/ice combo will make it cool down even faster. Spin the bottle every minute or so. Takes about 10 minutes. • How can you tell if a wine is spoiled and can I return it? Corked wine has a characteristic odor, variously described as resembling a moldy newspaper, wet dog, or damp basement. In almost all cases, the wine’s native aromas are reduced significantly, and a very tainted wine is completely undrinkable (though harmless). You can’t tell by sniffing the cork. If you pour a glass and smell nothing, then taste nothing but wet cardboard and it doesn’t open up with 10-15 minutes of aeration, it’s probably corked. Even poorly crafted wine tastes like some form of fruit. Corked wine is not pleasant and if you drink enough, you’ll come to recognize it pretty quickly. We encounter it at least once or twice a month at our house. I
