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Ice cubes in wine

87 replies

Vestisbest · 08/09/2023 20:00

AIBU 🤣

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Whataretheodds · 08/09/2023 20:38

I don't like the taste of wine with ice cubes.

Assuming the wine is chilled (all colours in this weather), chill the glass, use frozen grapes if needed.

illiterato · 08/09/2023 20:40

JaneJeffer · 08/09/2023 20:38

Chicken rosé?

The v pale one with a picture of a chicken on the label- can’t remember the name!

JaneJeffer · 08/09/2023 20:41

Ah I see Grin

Superfood · 08/09/2023 20:42

illiterato · 08/09/2023 20:40

The v pale one with a picture of a chicken on the label- can’t remember the name!

You mean La Vielle Ferme and it is indeed the most ok supermarket rosé.

I'm fine with an ice cube or two in my white/ pink wine when it's 30+ degrees tbh.

UnaOfStormhold · 08/09/2023 20:43

I was worrying you'd had a tragic mishap with a glass of rose and some frozen chicken stock (which I used to freeze in ice cube trays for convenient portioning).

BrightGreenMoonBuggy · 08/09/2023 20:45

Metal ‘ice’ cubes are great for plonking in wine but I’d never dilute my wine with real melting ice.

dontbeunreasonable · 08/09/2023 20:45

FFSWhatToDoNow · 08/09/2023 20:08

Make the ice cubes out of wine….

Good idea!

Lalalirct · 08/09/2023 20:45

VVVVVV unreasonable!

Why would anyone ruin wine adding water to it? 😓

Helenahandkart · 08/09/2023 20:46

My sophisticated French friend does this. They call it ‘la piscine’ (swimming pool).

thistimelastweek · 08/09/2023 20:46

Chicken rose. Drinking it right now. Sans ice cubes.
Delicious

Ice cubes in wine
Tallesttiptoes · 08/09/2023 20:46

Yes yes to ice cubes in white wine and rose in hot weather.

Lol at red wine and coke, my DH lived in Spain for a while and always raves about it, I have never been able to bring myself to try it!

dontbeunreasonable · 08/09/2023 20:47

Most definitely.
l always put ice cubes in!

Hbh17 · 08/09/2023 20:49

Absolutely not - just dilutes it. Horrible!

Ginmonkeyagain · 08/09/2023 20:50

Very common in parts of Southern France. You get a tumbler of ice cubes with a teaspoon to add the cubes to your rose as you wish.

WithIcePlease · 08/09/2023 20:52

As per user name, an often repeated request of mine
At home I use the plastic ice cubes - they are super handy. Can be used in cava too which is my drink of choice
White wine only

kitsuneghost · 08/09/2023 20:53

Haveallthesongsbeenwritten · 08/09/2023 20:11

I put my red wine in the fridge during the summer. Just so its a bit cooler.
dont judge until you try.

I always drink red wine chilled

MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 08/09/2023 20:56

Missedmytoe · 08/09/2023 20:30

You need a lolly like this.

I was reading through the thread thinking of Bernard and his lolly!! 😂

WithIcePlease · 08/09/2023 20:56

Ooh and real ice cubes are handy if the pub wine isn't great - at least if properly cold, it'll taste a bit better- and also it does slow down drinking which can be useful

Nat6999 · 08/09/2023 20:56

I have ice cubes in my alcohol free cider & if I'm drinking anything with soda water, I put the bottle in the freezer, it's brilliant if I'm filling my metal water bottle up at night, it stays cool all night & no messing trying to get ice cubes in the narrow neck.

asterel · 08/09/2023 20:57

The first time I saw this done with white wine I was agog with horror! I’d never seen anything like it (I was about 24 and had grown up with very wine-knowledgeable parents - think vineyard tastings every summer in Bordeaux and so on). The only time I had ever seen ice cubes in wine was in cheap rosé in the south of France, where it was all good; but I’d never heard of it anywhere else.

The lady I saw do it first was actually super super posh, and had been a diplomat in America, where she said she had picked up the habit of putting ice cubes in white wine. So I reckoned, if she can do it, so can I. And it’s great. So I’ve never looked back since. (Admittedly, I probably wouldn’t do it if I was being served the finest Chablis at a state banquet. But in a glass of Sainsbury’s Gavi on a Friday night - well, it’s ice, ice, baby!)

brisedusoir · 08/09/2023 20:58

Rosé Piscine!

C'est quoi le Rosé Piscine ?

Le «rosé piscine» est tout simplement un GRAND verre de vin rosé rempli de glaçons. Ce «cocktail» fait des émules depuis quelque temps dans le sud de la France. Depuis ses balbutiements il y a quelques années, la tendance s'impose aujourd'hui en France comme à l'international et s'étend aux vins blancs également.

What is Rosé Piscine?

“Pool rosé” is simply a LARGE glass of rosé wine filled with ice cubes. This “cocktail” has been emulated for some time in the south of France. Since its infancy a few years ago, the trend is now taking hold in France and internationally and is also extending to white wines.

Tilllly · 08/09/2023 21:04

Another vote for plastic ice cubes

Brefugee · 08/09/2023 21:04

whenever I've been in France they have not "allowed" ice in wine. Except for rosé because "it's not proper wine"

asterel · 08/09/2023 21:09

Yeah it’s always been the case that a cheap rosé in the south of France is normally served with ice - lunchtime in a French pavement cafe in Aix with a goat’s cheese salad, bread, a carafe of house rosé and ice - absolute heaven on earth!

Sadly even if you buy some and bring it home, the cheap rosé with ice is never quite so nice when drunk in boring old England in Autumn and not in a lovely French square in August. I speak from bitter experience. 🙁

Knockon · 08/09/2023 21:13

Just reminding everyone of the existence of sangria, which is absolutely the wine drink of choice in this weather with huge ice cubes and cut up fruit for hydration and snacks 😂