Ice cubes in wine

[Vestisbest]

AIBU 🤣

In my early 20's with all the pomposity of youth I firmly adopted the position that life was too short to finish a bad book or bad bottle.

I have adhered to both beliefs religiously over the last nearly 40 year's.

I adore red wine and port.

But I also enjoy a very nice dry white.

My husband doesn't agree with how chilled I like it, destruction of it, yada yada🙄...I want it very chilled, occasionally with ice if the temperature is sky high.

I hate warm wine.

I couldn't care less what the protocol is.
I want a cold white during the summer months.

He can find chill another bottle 😄

I have been adding ice cubes to my wine this week!! Too hot not to.

I freeze grapes too.
I also have steel cubes that I freeze which are ok.

I find when out socialising with friends and drinking lots of white wine, ice is a hydrating blessing.

10 yrs ago I would have been a massive NOooo!
now, aged 48, it’s a must in white wine.
a cube in a glass chills it down a bit more.
I've convinced at least 8 friends that this is a better option without saying anything. All under 40! I think it’s the condensation on the glass that turns them

Plastic ice cubes were invented for this.

Rosé piscine ✅
Calimocho ✅
Sangria ✅

but you’re all missing out of you haven’t tried the authentic Spanish summer tipple - tinto de verano. Chilled red wine with ice topped up with lemon Fanta or sparkling water.

personally I recommend a 70/30 ratio of red wine to lemon Fanta.

try it and I promise you won’t look back.

I freeze green grapes for wine, slices of lemon and lime for gin. Sometimes put some frozen berries in my G&T. We also have a freezable sleeve thing that you keep in the freezer and place round your bottle to keep it chilled once out of the fridge.
Nothing more disappointing than a lukewarm glass of white.

Yes - my step father lived in Spain for a few years and loved this!

Most hot countries cool red wine - it's meant to be drunk at room temp not hot!

I'm in Paris atm and it was 36°c yesterday. I was given a whole glassful of glaçons to put in my white wine, which I did. Lifesaver.

Can’t drink rose without ice - a habit picked up from a very wine savvy posh friend!! I also often have a dry white with ice. A Sauvignon rather than a nice Chablis so it doesn’t really count.

Not alcoholic but German Spezi - half coke half orange Fanta - with ice

This in spades.

Yes to ice cubes and some lemonade... in red wine. Tinto de verano it's called (summer red) and drunk in Spain in the summer. Or if I'm feeling particularly devilish I swap the the lemonade for coke, kalimocho which is from the basque region.

Jancis Robinson did an everything you wanted to know about wine Q&A in the FT a few weekends ago and she said re adding ice cubes to wine “Absolutely. Especially as wine is getting stronger & stronger.” As you were!

Yes to ice cubes. Drink it however you want,

Ice cubes in wine is a staple in our house. Why wouldn't you?

😂i know exactly which wine you meant immediately from reading this and it will henceforth be chicken rosé in our house!

And yes I put ice in it.

Not what you asked, but if you need to chill wine quickly, soak a couple of paper towels in water, wrap them round the bottle and stick it in the freezer. Will be acceptably cool in approximately 7 minutes.

Ohh, that's is actually a great idea!

Even if wine is freezing cold I put ice in. Sometimes one cube but often more. I like it

I've never heard of this, but I quite like the sound of it.

Not in any decent wine.

Me too!

No to ice cubes. Make it watery.
yes to those metal cubes you can freeze to use instead.

I do ice in everything at the moment 🥵