Tip of the Day - Wine Ice Cubes
This tip is sheer brilliance. Unfortunately, it’s not my brilliance, nor can I remember where the brilliance came from. Maybe a magazine in the doctor’s office waiting room? If that’s the case, it was probably a tip from a 1992 Better Homes and Gardens or something.
Around here, we like a little wine from time to time, but we rarely finish a bottle before the wine starts to get that less than fresh taste. Whatever magazine I read this brilliant tip in, suggests making ice cubes out of leftover wine. You can use them in sauces, or if you have leftover white wine, you can use the cubes to chill wine from a new bottle that hasn’t been in the fridge long enough.
It took energy and resources to farm those grapes, process the wine, bottle it, and get it to your local liquor store, you might as well use every last bit of it.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Funny, leftover wine has never been a problem for me.
Does it freeze easily and solidly? I would think it wouldn’t because of the alcohol.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I made popsicles out of champagne and juice once and they froze decently. I don’t think they freeze like actual ice cubes, but more like when you make orange juice ice cubes or something like that. I haven’t tried it yet, because we actually did finish our last bottle of wine.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I’m siding with Noelle on this one. No wine is going to waste on my watch. A winecicle does sound like a nice summer treat, though. I might have to try that one.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Yeah, I’m a cheap date.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Hi Allie!
Thanks for the great wine tip. I posted a link to it and encouraged our readers to check out your blog:
http://www.ecollo.com/post/2008/01/Don‘t-let-your-wine-go-to-waste.aspx
It was a great article. If I ever have enough wine leftover, I’ll be sure to try this out!